Tuesday, April 14, 2020

the morning news

we talked
over coffee at the round table.

black, the newspaper opened
and flat

between us.
old news.

and what was the news
of us.

what page needed to be turned.
should we
go straight

to the obituaries?

of course.
the rest of the news,
the comics, the weather,

entertainment, the classifieds,
all absurd,
why bother

with the lives of others,
when our together

was so full of drama,
so oddly

disturbed.

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