Pink Slip

To consider only the expiration

Date. The end. Time. Seems wrong.

            While you were out

My life took a turn

Of sorts. I mapped it but can't explain.

Phonetics is not my bag:

I'm an area, coded, numbered, an extension.

                                 Please call.

                                 I'm home.

Message: I remember most

Sharing a cigarette with you

On a rooftop above 73rd--the Hudson, water towers.

We counted taxis. You said if we got to 100, I could
Kiss you. Smooth operator.