We stayed up all night
Drinking coffee
Smoking cigarettes
Talking
Philosophizing
Triangles as symbols
Symbols of vision
Symbols of life
Symbols of happiness
Symbols of misery
You drew three lines
With a blue pen
On a yellowed napkin
Looked at me
And said
Between you and me
Is that I stand here
At the apex
Of this triangle
Looking out
Toward infinity
My whole future
Spreading before me
On this plane
Looking backward
Your whole life
Narrowing
To this one point
And disappearing
As always, thank you for reading.
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