The window shade was tilted up
as if to brag in public humiliation,

by her choice

she offered no reference to this love...
when asked in open
desperation

"what happened to you?"

"Did you notice too...
that you have to suck so much harder on a cigarette these days,
to get any relief?"

somehow he knew at that point he was headed into gone...


"don't look so sad just because I'm not the same", she spoke

and nothing made sense of her recent demise...


as she smiled

and smothered out the almost unlit cigarette, between her legs