two friends who have been quite more

.

2
I feel like the laughing cavalier
sitting in a museum, wearing some smart blazer
looking smugly like the past, like usefulness
watching myself like watching others smirking
before art, works,
in colors in a bright projection.

1
Smiling, not laughing really
because there is no room for the tragic here or the down,
only smiling or motionless crying,
vibrating leaves, the emotion from
camping out in the world
with only a scarf and my stuff.

2
Still I’m afraid about what that means,
to be known by a smile, to smugly stare or

3
Over the phone:
You both look so absurd
standing in the old time cake light.
Please come inside, come here now, you.

1
I’m invited places mostly.
At last that is where I will go
(without reason)
replacing the blue scarf
with a blue alarm clock
(show of reason).

2
O you look like are sound like just like. . .
Enough of repeating

Think of all the long long trees that fell in an attempt to make it past
the electric wires swirling with conversations like these unneccessarily
swirling around and around humorless for dusky houses chattering
millions at once quietly in the patchwork suburb states good behavior
and chats and kisses that have never left home and the lights going off
in some logic that we could figure out if we wanted to and sat here long
enough talking but this place its silence is too large this time and enough
of talking.


1
Okay.


This is now, the present,
no repeating.

A pause.

This is what they now call the
present.

3
I'm hanging up now, that's it.


2
Let's open it
and open it.