Endless-Loop Outgoing Message
a dot a dash and then a beep where there’s no me where there’s no sage where there’s no message after the beep off the hook forever like the moon and stars I’m light years out of reach adrift in the echo of a silence defined by asystole and you once said you’d never but that’s twice now you lied so please let go and don’t speak and go hang your head out to dry in the gift shop sob crocodile tears along streets above gutters where the alligators sleep or whatever in heaven it is that you do or wherever you are when you’re nowhere I need you all these years you’ve been too busy to speak to a dot a dash and then a beep












