04-05-2022, 05:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-06-2022, 04:13 AM by RiverNotch.)
The Refugee and Her Host
She knows why they can't watch together
Battlestar Galactica
or Stargate with its aerial bombings
though she doesn't really savour
Buffy and its deceptive attempts
to uplift her sex. She doesn't want
to watch at all, just as he's anxious
to watch the news at home, but all this
he, too, knows. What else can he do?
She's looking for a job in a foreign land
that she never had a mind to visit,
let alone live in for, what, one month? Two?
He's lost track of time, while she
refuses to keep it -- and she streams
the news about her home
from the privacy of her phone
while he picks through his Star Trek DVDs
and makes tea for two.
She knows why they can't watch together
Battlestar Galactica
or Stargate with its aerial bombings
though she doesn't really savour
Buffy and its deceptive attempts
to uplift her sex. She doesn't want
to watch at all, just as he's anxious
to watch the news at home, but all this
he, too, knows. What else can he do?
She's looking for a job in a foreign land
that she never had a mind to visit,
let alone live in for, what, one month? Two?
He's lost track of time, while she
refuses to keep it -- and she streams
the news about her home
from the privacy of her phone
while he picks through his Star Trek DVDs
and makes tea for two.