time heals but time travel is impossible

i won’t keep checking my

watch. i have no concept of

time anyways. just

yesterday i sat in an armchair

meeting her folks, then

crooning chris isaak’s wicked game

lost and alone and barely alive.

time heals but time travel

is impossible, this i know because

i’ve tried to step out of this

rut and into the future. somewhere

out there She waits, as i wait here

i’d prefer we wait together,

presently.