178.

Of all his parts,
you don't get what you want most.

Wrong taste,
maybe the wrong mouth.

You are both hungry.
It has been a very long year.

He tells you he's killed someone.
He says that sometimes,

people stop touching him
when they learn this.

You have never been with anyone
who has been to war.

There is a hardness
to you both and so

you test this. You have both ruined
many things.

He is much more gentle
in your dreams.

Awake, it's neither here
nor there, no specific color.

Where is he?
And where are you?

You stay, quiet
and listening.