"last thursday" by Robby Nadler

i meant to callto let you know i'm dying somewherebetween the near distance of smokeand the fire it came from but whenyou picked up the phone i told youabout the other day when i crossed a bridgeand these black and white duckstried their best to swim upstreambut kept getting swept further down           i bet you still talk in yoursleep but if no one is in your bed youcannot know if you are and maybethere is someone in it your bedi mean not your talk but i know it'snot me           the cool thing about theducks was when they dove underwaterthey looked just like penguinsimagine seeing penguins in kansasand not paying anyone for it           you've been gone almostten years now and i'm still interestedin finding out about how your day went after ifinish telling you about mine but this isprobably what you meant when you saidyou wish i'd pick a world to inhabitand stick with it