poem:

the words are funny

funny like the smell

of rotten food

or funny

like a good joke told right

right

something inalienable

or correct

or a way to turn

turn

like a stomach sickening

or going from facing me

to walking away

which leaves me stunned

perhaps because

you were stunning

a breath of beauty

once lost and now

I’m shattered

(figuratively, not literally)

you retreat

which is both a giving up

and a sanctuary at last

last like the end

last like never ends