We know each other’s names. After all, it’s on the lists and calendars that we use our time, on humming tables, music almost,

 

But there’s no beat

 

There’s a country with a drum to it, the sky changing colour at each hit. Each beat of ours, it never repeats, each sunset track new

 

Each track is in motion,

 

On cement blocks we help each other atop

 

It’s got bars in the sky, I see it between colours

I can’t find a word

 

The only sound is our humming

 

Or maybe it’s just the beat of the drums

 

We don’t know each other’s names


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