I Think We're Alone Now
Sionnain Buckley
Across the vacant middle seat an old man is sleeping through all of this, chin to collarbone, neck bent at a right angle.
Across the vacant middle seat an old man is sleeping through all of this, chin to collarbone, neck bent at a right angle.
And any of the people that had been counted correctly, including me, could move or die, making the incorrect count accurate once again, if only for a moment.
I don’t smoke, I called out, but no one heard me, and I sounded uncertain.
Do you remember this one?
When it is morning morning I dress myself in nice human clothes. I am ready to leave the garden, but I do not leave the garden.
Do us in quick, I begged, do me easy.
Perhaps we are simply trying to figure out how to stay inside a relationship – our relationship – and figure out how to physically exit the space we currently inhabit and enter another.
I was seventeen, so he was a man — had I been older, maybe not.
Show her face to the camera. Put your finger in her mouth.
He’s soaked in sweat already and all he’s done is drive. He must know what they are here to find.
When I was thirty I found my birth mom. I’d written her letters but never sent them.
This is a frontier town. Means it’s small.
Now, if the frontier was moving forward, like they do sometimes, our town might get bigger, but that ain’t happened for nigh on eighty years and I don’t
They gather in the basement to weep together like the boys they are.
There was a Help Wanted sign at the florists. I had a car, so I walked in and applied. This was a time in my life when I’d decided anyone could do anything. In other words, I was an artist.
Is this new relationship self-sabotage in disguise, or is it the cure?
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