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Between the Lines
As you were describing the novel
plot and symbolism
character dispositions,
rising and falling
actions
twists and turns in
theme, setting, time
line for line
your friend
lifelong chum
whose booze-
breath babbles
but can still saddle a
stallion sentence
interrupted you
hurdling himself
to the middle of
the mute in
your mouth
between words
to laugh and say, “ha that’s clever”
never can your momentum
find its way back
now that the conversation
lost its slack
because he didn’t understand you
intelligence
is social currency
you mustn’t act cheap
And now three years later
three years packed into
the empty space between
the lines of this poem
when you think about that novel
infrequent but happens
time to time
you ponder what significance
a different denomination
of social currency
your friend understood in that one part
understood an
overstatement
What clever irony
the currency
of past
prospects
eluded you,
our poetic protagonist
you thought
infrequent but happens
time to time
,that your friend realized secondhand
he was always able to read
between the lines