these ties, they bind us into good books.
2005-09-09 3:55 p.m.
coffee shop means listen to womenover their laptops, with professional faces
but not about business, french as a second language
kind of women
who take themselves very seriously, prided
on levelheadedness
what good can come of second guesses?
our happiness depends, she says
(in more words, of course)
on my ability to have an idea of change
in love with the idea (as
we all are at some point)
of being
connected
to another human being, outside
of the humans she has already assimilated
as extensions of herself,
and instead says, disconcertingly,
that she is afraid to reject the pursuit
of a sensitive man
(our ideals often pose well as excuses, and she leaves
no better for a conversation
except as used as another extension
a paper trail when her faithfulness caves in
attesting to efforts in other directions.)