12th of February

[Gecko]

I found a memo on my phone

not two weeks ago

Four minutes long,

don't know how it got there

 

Your voice and

only yours

responds to my absent words,

Alive and giggling:

'Are you gonna

mimic me the whole time?'

 

Endearments of your cousin;

a brief lesson in Spanish

Some playful banter

and Charles in the background

 

I dare not erase this message,

far too afraid;

this may be all I have left of that Woman

Who saw the Invisible Man...

 

It all seems so far away

from the booze,

ecstasy

cocaine

and Mary-Jane

you use now to stifle the pain.