10 year radio after ten years he found her she was moving between the static of a late night a.m. radio dialed to a dead channel. he sat up in bed and called her name laura! he strained himself towards the white noise. he thought she said: i love you or maybe it was: why did you leave? for awhile he knew she was just sitting there listening to him waiting for him to say something that would make sense of the last ten years he could imagine her eyes blinking in the slow rhythm of the stoplights outside his window, her breath following the soft cadence of the freeway around the corner. he could see her clearly, in a different room on the other side of the city staring into her radio listening to his explanationsBirth sign: Taurus
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