12 august

Thanks so much for taking the time [she said]

I know

                [she said]                           

                                you don’t have a lot

                                of time for yourself…

a caramel glisten on the back of my tongue

the value of being understood

Not at all [I said]

My pleasure [I said]

but it was almost too much

a sickly sweet trickle as my teeth turned tense,

tasted rot

where once there was strength

how can we know [I wondered]

how others feel

how others draw the lines

and lay it out?