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