shri lanka

They confided their love
of methamphetamines
as I pretended to sleep.
Vanity
Seattle
stop lites
and a respite in the rain,
despite urban renewal
this city is the same.

Dark video games
loomed like our childhood
for a quarter
you feel beter.

We lay on our sides
as she looked at my face
like it were her own
in the bathroom mirror.
Waylon Jennings is dead
said Lary King.
We pretend we were in love
and closed our eyes and made it.