Surrogate Poem
Later that day
His head appeared
From under a blanket.
He didn’t yawn
Or rub his swollen eyes.
He didn’t get up or stretch his stiff limbs.
He didn’t take a piss and brush his teeth.
He was lying
And just lying.
What is the meaning of his lying?
Earlier that day
She wrote
“Body is there
just
to carry me.
Little
do I know
I am body”
On her mobile phone.
What did she want to say?
At noon
They were sitting on a retaining wall
Exchanging poetry on their cellphones
Starting to feel hungry.
She touched his belly demonstratively and it gurgled.
He paused, thinking.
He placed his hand on her waist
And his ear on her chest:
“I see”.
What was it that he saw?
Listen now, dumbass.