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Write about an overheard remark.
They sit across from each other
a table’s length apart and world’s away.
He worries about the approach:
how should he attempt to encounter
someone as lovely as she?
She frets, too, about the chance:
shouldn’t she say something to him
before he, and time, slips away?
They are strangers in familiar territory
wanting to seize the moment, but insecure.
He doesn’t even imagine that she
feels the same unrest over their
unresolved situation.
She worries that he is uninterested
in someone as timid and unsure
of how to embrace this opportunity.
Two individuals, enduring the same unrest
of a potential connective moment.
A pair of brilliant fools. |