We were two for one hundred forty hours
give or take
subtract the hours you slept
you’re down to one hundred four hours now
give or take
subtract the hours i slept
i’m somewhere around one hundred twenty
give or take
you picked my towel up from off the floor
not once
but twice
the slight nod of your head
when you told that man ‘thank you’
i wanted to take my towel off for you then
let it fall back to the floor
of course, i wasn’t in a towel
we were in my car
and you didn’t notice
the desire that dripped
like the ice cream down the sides of those cones
we licked and licked
on that red bench
the same color as my nose
from crying all that morning
and most of that day
“well where can this go”
and
“someone will get hurt”
this street we took from ‘hello’ to ‘goodbye’
long and winding
partly uphill
the road signs all overgrown
and
you the navigator
and
i the helmsman
going up and up
to that fire tower we weren’t supposed to climb
but did
and that other one back there in the forest somewhere
a notebook with our names written together
blue ink
the only evidence
that we ever existed anywhere
together
for one hundred forty hours
give or take
In Between Days 