The Apartment Is Dark

Music: Fugue in F# Major. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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The apartment is dark. I like it that way. Through unshaded windows I look across the street. People there have lights on. I see them through curtains. A muscular young man Washes dishes with his wife. A woman drinks beer In the blue light of TV. On the top floor a mother, A daughter, a daughter: Three without men. Next door an old couple Smothers the fear Of who will die first. In a singles bar I meet a woman And have nothing to say. Too many times I have said the same things. I watch here in darkness, In the peace of aloneness, And think about me, And think about you.