I have lost you to sleep again. Sleeping as we do on opposite sides of a Venn diagram I read the time in shadows on the wall – The shards of light through the slats on your window Ah ha ha ha! I ease myself from under your languid arm, Fumble on my boots and hear you breathe through your alarm I disarm it for you, you rarely heed it anyway I wouldn't want it to intrude upon your dream, School bell ring messing up the play Ah ha ha ha! A note, penned clumsily in this century's type-ruined hand Saying gone down the shops for a walk I'll bring back some sandwiches and then I kiss your face, The black and the blue tie it into my laces, I don't want the wander blocking up the view Ah ha ha ha! I stumble out into the afternoon. Still salty from drink and the late night pool I'll be gone an hour at most, you will be more diagonal I've a head on me in the post, I know, A castle swallowed in the swell. Ah ha ha ha!