Hospitals and mountains
Everything leads up to this
adds up to this position
where you think you'll be alone
forever but fairly soon if not exactly
next week you will meet someone
in a park or stuck in traffic
They will set your flesh alight
slowly much too slowly and it
will seem like bad behaviour
you will feel as if
as if you are harbouring an infection
You will be together for five years and six months
through violent happiness and time zones
and locations such as
hospitals and mountains
After which you will think you are recovered
having acquired a liquid grace and social ease
friends will say
you seem younger less precious
Now take this pill you must forget
this will ever happen
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