Sunday, February 5, 2012

EYELASHES TWICE REMOVED

The two of them.  The one and one of them.  Not to mention what has been.  Not to mention it come to mention it mention it to come to mention it to not to come not to mention it.  Turn towards and away ears hold the wind knocked out of each one and one of them.  The two of them. Period.  Dot dot dot each speck rubbed with ignoring the other can't seem to reach them on the line it's on the line.  Not to mention what has been.  


The paper airplane didn't stand a chance as it landed in the bucket of water overflowing from the downpour through the hole in the roof of the roof of the house not to mention what has been.  Not to mention it come to mention it mention it to come to mention it to not to come not to mention it through the hole in the roof of the roof of the house.  The house didn't stand a chance.


Man: Your hand feels limp.
Woman:  Limp?  Did you say, "limp"?  
Man:  Yes, I said, "limp."  Your hand feels limp.
Woman: How can that be?  I have a good grip on this book.
Man: Not that one.  The one that is currently holding me.  You've got a book over there?
Woman: Just a small one.  Where's my other hand holding you?
Man: A part of me.  Just a small one.


Didn't stand a chance didn't stand and waited too long and not long enough to avoid the disappointment of just having missed it having missed her having missed having her missed her having to avoid the disappointment of having waited too long and not long enough to avoid the disappointment of just having missed it.  


Man: You've been reading a book all this time?
Woman: You know it's not easy for you to carry on a conversation once you get into bed.
Man: Naturally, if you're going to be reading a book.
Woman: I've got to do something while you have those longer and longer pauses between your . . . your . . . 
Man: Between my what?  Go on say it.
Woman: Between your ellipses.
Man: Are you referring to my fluid build up?
Woman: Not in the least.
Man: That's due to inflammation of the bursa sac.
Woman: I wasn't even thinking of your sac.
Man: Apparently.  It'll need surgical drainage.
Woman: Did I ever suggest that?  No matter how I put this your exhaustion and my exhaustion will further deflate our touch our words and our eyes don't meet again before extinguishing the light and by morning will have stirred our dried out ingredients into the vat.  
Man: Into the vat.
Woman: You did say one thing.
Man: What one thing?
Woman: During one of your incomprehensible dot dot dots.
Man: And it wasn't about surgical drainage?
Woman: Come to mention it, I'm not sure if you said it or if it was what I was reading or a combination of the two.
Man: Into the vat.
Woman:  Yes, the vat.


The paper airplane didn't stand a chance as it landed in the bucket of water overflowing from the downpour through the hole in the roof of the roof of the house not to mention what has been.  Not to mention it come to mention it mention it to come to mention it to not to come not to mention it through the hole in the roof of the roof of the house.  The house didn't stand a chance.


Didn't stand a chance didn't stand and waited too long and not long enough to avoid the disappointment of just having missed it having missed her having missed having her missed her having to avoid the disappointment of having waited too long and not long enough to avoid the disappointment of just having missed it. 




- Max Stoltenberg





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