Go on, then.

Tell me which.

I guess it doesn’t matter,

since both are disappointing.

 

What vain and well-intentioned hubris.

To deface a void.

To polish nothingness into a mirror

as if it needed you.

 

No?

 

Lonely, then,

and nobody to tell.

Well, here I am. How is your loneliness today? Better? Worse? The same?

 

Your turn

Ask me

It’s worse

 

That’s all.

You can go now.

Go find something to amuse yourself with –

a bird, or a sunrise, or something.