An abstract in two cities
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Tuesday, 16th November 2004 @ 04:50:24 PM in AEST
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Sunny, steel city afternoon
A new day in separate lives
Jeni sits quietly smoking
New roommate making small talk
About nothing in particular
Wondering about the next year
Not a seer, he missed the truth
A fine time, cut too short
From week to week, anathema
Jeni told stories to reveal
Things she loved and people
Who lived in battered photographs
Of her hometown, and boyfriend
Whom she cared for, dearly
By the time she came to leave
Him several months later
She never thought that by then
We'd have become close friends
Now old roommate gone to find
His own way, we both would miss
In another summer, we parted
Both to other, older, times
Keeping in touch was important
Daily routine murdered silently
And slowly, our paths to cross
As I first moved back south
In months that seemed like years
Old boyfriend, I found returned
I had only recently left another
She hugged me, as we were closer
Then, than even now, my friend
A confident I could always find
Happy to see me, we spent nights
At a local restaurant. Smoking
Cigarettes and drinking bad coffee
That warmed the heart
And let the mind look forward
To a future, like past, repeat
Old boyfriend, gone again, lost
And homeless, soon to be asking
If I could help, she knew I would
And together, a sojourn, not long
An eternity in paradise, that
The past couldn't shadow
What lay before, in fact
It looked bright, given the
Glorious history that we
Shared, in our city
With one another, seemed not
To be enough, that we loved
And I took my place within
That record fate remembered
From a different age,
So it seemed to us, at least
I believed differently then
Now I see the satire
In that divine comedy, clearly
Those tears I now shared
With those that long before
I regarded with scorn
The end at least, of all
In my new city, and I gave
All then, to return to that
Time, long ago, before
That I loved, then, and now
This abstract finding its place
In our collective memories
Of those two cities
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