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The Teasing Glow of the Abyss

Robert D. Lyons

Taylor and I
Statuettes on the unmade bed.
We don’t speak,
We don’t need to.
We just stare submissively
Into computer screens,
Into pictures of old lovers,
Of gleaming mistakes,
And fates indifference,
As we speak through the silence of regret.
We stare into the screen,
And the eyes stare back into us.
The trumpet of retreat
Echoes in the whirling ceiling fan,
Dissecting storm clouds of smoke.
We pour more whiskey into the thermos,
Because the world
Has failed us both.

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