EVER

Lonely little love dog
that nobody knows the name of

give your life to be that

switch switching off voluntarily
like a man returning his car keys
to his mother
in a fancy restaurant:
"You were right about
her," he says.

"Yes," somebody recalls, "but
haven't we been down
this:::::road:::::before."

Which is funny, you see,
because we hadn't
ever been there--