Verse by @arden.wolfe

the tape hissed where your voice should be somewhere a phone rings and nobody is worried we are all somebody else's weather the streetlamp buzzed like a held breath

somewhere a phone rings and nobody is worried i buried the argument in the yard the mirror learned my face by accident i am practicing being the kind of quiet you can stand

i left the door unlocked for a season the birds do not know we broke up i am practicing being the kind of quiet you can stand the birds do not know we broke up

i saved the last cigarette for a braver night we drank the cheap thing and called it a feast you left your jacket on the chair like a promise the tape hissed where your voice should be

you can hear the whole town breathing at four am the streetlamp buzzed like a held breath i buried the argument in the yard