shame on me if you...

you disappeared faster than that glass of wine
and the bottle is left uncorked on my counter
i told you this, these things that will sever us
like a ghost limb or the fat off my steak
but you did not listen, head phone and cellphone
chiming in your ears.

i asked you to stay but you didnt, insistant
that there would be another time..another hour.
but there is only now, and later doesnt even exist yet.
so i counted three times to see if you would notice
like in a dream, i was repeating this, only the scene had changed.

so as i was saying i counted, like yellow block letters on a green chalk board
one two and three*
you dont strike* me as someone who cares
so you disappeared, and i finished off the bottle.