Different.
They were very different from each other.
Not complete opposites, but almost.
It was often questioned why, they were together. People marveled at this odd couple.
"Did you see those two? Why would he date her?"
"Shes so loud and hes so quiet..how does that work?"
"I wonder how he even ended up with her?"
The woman, would flare up at such talk. Her hotheaded temper got her into many a fight, and while she lost most of them, she never lost her spirit.
The man, being calmer and wiser, would ignore such talk, and continue on his way.
The woman was spirited, proud, and short tempered. She didn't give a rat's ass about what oth
I love how you feel
like a Billie Holiday song,
or a blues poem crammed affectionately
in my back pocket with a half-
life in cigarettes.
There is a science to our forgetfulness, maybe
it was the smoke that made you vanish, or the gin,
or maybe it was when I surpassed the proper amount
of yearning.
Walking home that night, heavy
with empty glasses and last
requests, I hummed
an old jazz tune and
surrendered to it.