The Nation

a blackeye

There’s two news clippings about you,
so they told me.
Annoyed but secretly happy.
Any publicity is good publicity.

At a café,
I sit next to a woman
and try to point out my notoriety.
We looked through it
but couldn’t find it. 
She tells me about her black eye
from her boyfriend.

Oh, it’s nothing,
just an accident. 
Awkward

We sit jovially.
She tells me about the TV show, 
The Nation,
that her boyfriend watches. 
She gets a coffee, 
       I leave.

**** takes a train
but he doesn’t have a ticket for me
Father, he became

People don’t consider others anymore
I keep the annoyance
to myself. 
Everything is about independence. 

We’re about to have a foursome
but I didn’t wash. 
I felt a tad dirty
but not too embarrassed. 
They wanted to have sex privately,
but it’s better when everyone’s
                                    together. 

27th of November, 2023