heavy boots

when you kiss me on the cheek
again when you

said you wouldn't
remember this:

the room as it seemed
to move around you
the lightburst before
the bulb blew out

and us
alone, lonely together

in the dark

and all your heat
surrounding me.

.skink.

I bought a new light today for my bike: a front one. My old one was being rather dim and dim-witted - or should I say watted? And out of frustration, I commented, perhaps a little too loudly a day or two ago that I planned on replacing it with a bigger, brighter light.
I suspect it heard me and began to behave itself.
Alas, I bought a new light today.

Maybe in time I'll be able to buy a bigger, brighter back light to match it (no doubt my current back light is having tinges of ominous fortunes), but for now, at least oncoming traffic will see me, flying towards them, screaming into their eyes, Hey, I belong here too.