Sitting there as long as you like, who’s to bother you? In your white shorts, cigarette choking the room, the only living thing, and half glass Th 5 o’clock news slides into 6 and 7 and 8 and 9 24 hours a day, that’s about right Damn Arabs you might say ( if you only knew ) A day without your comment, so befallen on us alive A quiet night that heaved in protest with a rip in the sky So loudly, but for you, my only, then, asleep