do you ever listen to anyone else but yourself?
because your words
they are going and going and going and going
and even when i do not respond
they keep
rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling off your tongue
with the ease in which i know that you are not speaking to be heard
but to speak
and you do not care about me
but only you
because you do not get it
how do you not get it
i am not replying
and yet you do not get it
how many words do you have to waste before you will look up and see another
how many times do i have to face you with silence before you realize something is wrong
or will you notice and just keep talking
piling the syllables on like the sticky syrup
in a twenty-four hour diner
that will never
close.