necessity (pure)

Could we say if
our phones weren't
working
or had their batteries
drained, such as last time,
that distinguishing
vellum from
tracing paper,
for example,
should not be fascinating
as long as there
are images
to see
into
opposed to
see again in?

the bars on a phone
would be peculiar if
imagined elsewhere,
seeing
three hollowed petri
dishes stacked beside
fourteen more of the same.
it'd be like more time
or more errors
or more notches
of wastefulness,
as every word
cannot be
recalled for
later use.
only
some.
of
very few.

the option
to misdirect
is here
as what i understood
from
your
speaking.

but how could
you
embody
any truth
that is not
a tracing,
for example,
of how, for one,
we have taken
so much from each other
because we speak so
infrequently, and consequently,
earnestly,
only to find
our own mirroring
thoughts?

i guess i'm wondering
if exclaimed in my voice
is what's just as
apparent in yours -
trivialities
time
sorrow
to spare
and leak
out into the world
that gave it
to us,
as if to
accept as
an image
we only
ever felt,
and so,
missed.



n.romero
5.5.08