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Radio Silence

(After Robert Browning)

During the day
racing from one conviction
to the next
with your texting
your blogging
your twittering

I ask who you are talking to
and you say no one
but all this typing is going on
that's talking to someone
and you say you are tweeting.

It is fucking amazing
how we can parse things out
so that it is not it
but rather it
of a very specific
other variety of it
but not exactly
since it here
is not it there
and so the omission
is permissible.

Well, I'm in the car
only not in the car
driving
but not driving
and the radio silence
is me not being here either

invisible
unworthy to speak to
although in the room
in the car
maintaining support
giving every shred
to the cause

and so the fucking rapture
has taken us
and no one
is in the goddamned car
not talking to anyone either

and we are both
not here nor there
nor anywhere
and the car
is careening
down the highway
all on its own
not going nowhere fast.

And then
when I get home
deadly silence
except for the TV
and that not loud
only blaring
like a siren
screaming at the top
of its existence

and then not talking
and no one talking
and everyone engaged
and yet no one here,
or there, or anywhere,
only radio silence.

God forbid
we should not see
the latest episode

God forbid the people
in the room
should carry
as much weight
as the people out
of the room

You asked me
about moving back
into the bedroom
and then never mentioned it again,
but we can talk about it
but  we never really did
and days went by

and the silence grew
and then
in the end
that was all there was,
just a stone solid fucking deafening silence
that one day someone will talk about,

but not us,
not today,
not anyhow,
in radio silence.

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