because your eyes look different under fluorescent light than under my cover of night (when you come) because I shook and asked you or someone took my hands and begged you to let me turn you black & blue. my legs shake too, just like a victim of burning or too much water my father should have warned me but he smiles. at least someone here is learning (not his daughter) a picture: you leaving we walk slowly so you can drive miles away quickly, deliberately as a child walks with teaspoons poorly measured and heaping to the door I turn the lock to the right and sink to the floor to write poetry or an entry in a document to slip inside my pocket itβs mostly a comet to keep inside the closet or underneath a blanket where it ended and started.