Days Inn

A phone call to my
ex: "I feel
cut off from reality.

People seem to me
like a different species
I hardly belong to,

except for some physical
characteristics.
I only want to know

in the spiritual sense,
am I better or worse off
than they?"

Empathy is fun.
Sympathy is... ?
JESUS LOVES YOU,

said bumper to bumper
on I-99.
"Do you have Miles Davis?"

she asked me once,
then slowly
unzipped my fly.

(Oh, those were the days,
my happy days,
my "lost" years,

& now this funk
& her strange fashion
of forsaking.)