what are you doing tonight?
photo of a Kyoto street by dsnake1
what are you doing tonight?
the half eaten dinner
is still in the styrofoam box
on the table
perhaps the rice is too sticky
maybe the cook had a bad day
like me
stub out the nth cigarette
sitting in the darkness listening
for a heartbeat
the blue curaco in a tall glass
with borzoi vodka and ice cubes
cools nerves
i light incense to her at the altar
call out her name, see the smoke
like farewells
i clean the dust and oil off
the gas hobs, as she had done
so many years
until the cold steel shines
and my sobs tremble and echo in
the silence
sitting in the quiet dark again
trying to figure out how the years
were wasted.
you will figure out surely
what you are doing tonight
the night answers
then i fire up the power amp
slip a disc into the player
sit back
and wait for Mark Knopfler
and his guitar to take us
to nirvana.
written lovingly 15/09/2007
revised slightly 23/08/2021
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Dire Straits - On Every Street
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2024
Labels: loneliness, longing, loss, love, lovesongs, Night, Poetic forms