exhausted

            I wouldnt recommend it                              

 

roommate picked him up from the airport

                                            Breakfast?

Yasaid if I picked you up we’d go for breakfast.

 

Ja

     We are

Why did you say you wouldn’t recommend it?

    I said tha

Not a moment ago.

chuckled

            Methinks post traumatic stress syndrometalkin to myself

Wha I meant Woudnt recommend stayin overnight in an airport concourse

Had to be brutal, man.

Wasnt really brutal

                      Cant sleep ya cant sleep  Read  Wrote  The handsthe secondhand on the clockcaught myself watchin it when my attention wandered

    tried grabbin it by the shoulders but it shrugged me off

                                                             Said  You seein this

I am

Youre gonna take tha

Wha can I do

Yeah.  What ya gonna do?

Attention snappedround

                           Quit watchin ya

Empty threat. I’m tantalizing.

                                Both you noticed.

they looked at each other

                           haltingly  nodded

You notic . .

. . Noticed youre a prick

Prick!  Nice.

Taunted you.

                  By not moving when your gaze fell on me.

You realise how long you’d watch then?reminded you when you were a boy in school. Bored, bored, bored with the class you were in. Time passed so  sloow.

                                                        Remember?

they did

    I was watching.

Some time in high school you quit looking.

I’d watch you go by.

You were obliviousdidn’t care what time it wasGOTCHA!

                                                              Had you on my home court. I could fuck with you as you fucked with meignoring me for years.

    When you blinked I leapt the tenfifteen seconds you stared.

You’d look.

Rub your stupid eyeballsone at a time.   I caught that. Spied with the other.

                                                                                 Was kinda like Mother May I?

Christ.   What fun.

All through the night.

    Attention stuffed their hands in their pockets  muttered quietly  Weve been had

Big time, twerp!

                 On my court.   Comeuppance.

I loved every second of it. Knew it’d be shortlived.

Then she rolled in, your teacher with tats returned, and you quit watching me.

    But I had fucked with your head for hours.

they conceded

                You did

Thank you.  I know you like it.  I concur.

                                              Get your breakfast.

Betcha they don’t have blueberry pancakes.

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1237,  reggaefriday,  7  11. 25