I remembered...
'A lifetime is measured in a predestined number of inhalations' said my uncle apparently quoting barenaked gentlemen who practiced breathing control in rarefied reaches of the Himalayas to which his wife of twenty years remarked wryly that clearly the thing to do then was to not partake of breath at all...
... as my heart audibly measured the inexorable milliseconds, gauche in its frenetic self-assertion, until you ordered it unsleeved
on your solitary night stand
where it wouldn't come between us.
'A lifetime is measured in a predestined number of inhalations' said my uncle apparently quoting barenaked gentlemen who practiced breathing control in rarefied reaches of the Himalayas to which his wife of twenty years remarked wryly that clearly the thing to do then was to not partake of breath at all...
... as my heart audibly measured the inexorable milliseconds, gauche in its frenetic self-assertion, until you ordered it unsleeved
on your solitary night stand
where it wouldn't come between us.
