seconds

how did we get
here?
you asked.
i raised the
textbook
i was
reading.
you read the title aloud,
“biology”
and released an unsatiated,
“oh.”

far too many moments
passed.
sensing a need for closure and
having lost my place,
i asked,
“or by we, did you mean
us?”

but it didn’t
matter. By that time,
you were
someone else, and
i was
no longer
myself.