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TRADING ZONE #8<br />
—<br />
How was work? You ask.<br />
I enquire how school went<br />
and we proceed to talk past the other–<br />
our speech slow, pronunciation deliberate<br />
as though we’re back in Spain<br />
and you’re guiding the barman<br />
through the construction<br />
of a Black ‘n’ Tan.<br />
We each make our quiet study<br />
of the other’s sadness:<br />
you the theorist,<br />
imprisoned in a bed-bound malaise,<br />
me the experimentalist,<br />
shitfaced out of my tiny liquid brain.<br />
In what might be a massive<br />
oversimplification of events<br />
we lovingly contaminate each other<br />
with our history of failings.<br />
I sympathise with tall buildings<br />
having to carry the weight<br />
≠<br />
of themselves within their own walls.<br />
I love you and hate you<br />
with the static attraction<br />
of two rubbed balloons.<br />
We stand here in what will be<br />
our slow love to the death–<br />
your monkey claw<br />
versus my eagle’s fist.<br />
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