fin ad infinitum

the theater is still dark
the screen black, but as though
cut through the night the end
in white is clearly
spelled out

still, let's sit here
together a while, thinking of how
the actor shouted some
senseless line:
i still love you
fiercely as the night
chases the sun

or the actress:
how in the dark you can almost
taste
loneliness

that part really
got to me

the audience gone let us two sit
one moment more, somehow
it seems right that this closing song
keeps going on and on