When the food was eaten and the wine was drunk, when stories were told and stories were listened to, when employees were rewarded and the entire enterprise toasted, when music was heard and movies were watched, when stairs were climbed and bed was entered, when words were spoken and hands were moved, when fasteners were unfastened and demands unforgotten, when more food was eaten and more wine was drunk, the two, each thinking that as nice as two could be it was never quite the match of two ones, that a pair was a convenient fiction at best, that loyalty was defamation and loneliness was clarification, closed their eyes and drifted off, full and also empty.
©2020 Ben Greenman/Stupid Ideas
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