Alone With You In the 21st Century

Somewhere in the 21st century
     we find our backs arched, heavy
bent, doubled over, crooked spines
     with the weight of the modern world
Nobody seems to know how
     to grow up, to live, to die
We're post-industrial, dying of cancer
     dying for unknown reasons

Engines rev, spinning
     There's still smoke in the air
We're fighting gravity
     now everything's in the air

Post-modern thought and minds
     We're moving past ourselves
"Today's the only on that counts"
     we'll say today and tomorrow
Without knowing the modern face
     we greet this ambiguous dawn
sure of our uncertainty, arbitrarily
     a mon avis, from where I stand

I see you from here 
     that's the you i see
We speak in dialogue
     lost in our own bodies

The structure of the human face
     line, form, weighted eyelids
lips like things that hold us
     to another source of heat
in beds we share alone together
     through REM cycles broken
up like scratches on the
     records we won't use anymore

This is why we are alone
     in the space between ourselves
In the shadow of love, you and i
     are two different ideas at once
(being stretched out like canvas
     on two halves of the bed)
lying together in one space
     watching the spheres collide

It's okay to be alone
     we are alone together

[end].

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