sarah masen
On this day in 0
by [jp/p] on Thu Sep 11 12:56:00 +0000 2003 in Melting Pot
I said it into a cell phone
I cried
I clogged the chatter
I made it harder to understand
Than it’d ever been before
What was happening inside me
Was happening without
I was falling in on me
I said it hurt (It didn’t hurt yet)
I checked you out on a register
I choked hard on the matter
I made it impossible to leave
You
For forgetting
To remember
What we lost
What we just gave away
(What we tried desperately to regain
in little photographs
and badly drawn tears)
I lost all respect for you that day
And yet you had the nerve
To send me my last check
On August 22nd
Through a fiber optic wire
Strung
To the static
Which made it that much harder to grasp
What was happening
Around us
But I exhaled
What you forced me to breathe
September 11th.
$167.43.
