Recall #1

You listened to the radio and noise was all you heard. I listened to the radio and I heard songs about how we were and what we could be. We talked ’til four in the morn­ing, going from mild intox­ic­a­tion through drunk­en­ness and out the other side, to the point where we were com­pletely lucid by five. The birds star­ted their dawn chorus. I lined up the bottles on the win­dow sill, while you some­how decided that this would be a good moment to rearrange your book­shelves. I fell asleep on the sofa. When I awoke it was mid­day. And you’d gone.