electricity bill
I remind myself of you so I wouldn’t forget. every morning when a bottle comes from the ocean, I think it would be you but it is a bill from the electricity company reminding me that I have to pay the bills. when the morning wakes up, I go to the only phone booth in the town and send you a kiss but the man that I kiss always says that he’s unable to reach you, I should try tomorrow again and so I do. he is friendly, and doesn’t charge me or otherwise I wouldn’t be able to pay our electricity bills. hot water ran out the day you left. I think it is travelling with you, it loved you very much. the day you were gone, I thought I’d receive a note. you always spoke about the world beyond the trees and the ocean, didn’t I wish to know what was behind the palm tree that stood in the ocean, you asked every time you opened your eyes. and when I said no for the hundred and fiftieth time, I never imagined it would be my last time for long time.