Poem: "We Know Each Other"

Longing, elonging, 
Contracted. 
Longing, elonging, 
Subtracted.
Contracted like a bug, 
These things called feelings, 
This thing called love. 
Longing, elonging, 
Stretching, 
Wretched, wicked, hard. 
A-thief-in-the-night-like brutal and 
Leaving me with scars. 


But you, you...
You can go straight thru, 
Straight thru on the tube:
You need not even stop! 
Hop on at your home and then 
By your work hop off. 
Every day you ride the one 
That people take when they 
Want to leave this city, bye! 
Want to leave this place. 
Every day you take the one, 
It's near the spot we met. 
Remember what you said to me?
Remember what you said.
"Yes, we do," I'll say it here, 
I've got a place no other. 
We do in fact, we do in fact, 
In fact we know each other.