Is this what we've become?
Scarcely a word all week,
two full sentences mar
the perfect lines:
"morning"
"Morning"
"Pleasant night?
"Eh.  You?"
"Eh."
"Good luck."
"Same to you."
The monotony of the academic realities
rivalled only by the monotony of conversation
as days go by with only those
exchanges
deemed necessary:
"Night."
"Night."
Because really,
we don't know how to talk anymore.