A Monologue for Voices: “The spoon is”

 

The spoon is
in the coffee cup.
(She wants me to stop dancing.)

I am a dancer.
(I am cold.)

It is because of atoms.
(The physicists tell us so.)

I thought she was yelling at me.
(The atoms make us one.)

My coffee is over there.
(The spoon is in the drawer.)

Atoms make it so.
(Actually it's a bowl.)

I can see all of one angle of the spoon.
(She called back to apologize.)

She apologized on the phone.
(I like to dance.)

Cold represents a lack of activity.
(The difference between atoms is miniscule.)

It is like the space a coffee cup makes.
(While we talked on the phone, she apologized.)

When it is not there, it is nothing.
(Something is either there or not there.)

It is an activity.
(The poem does not have something to discover.)

That is all she can do.
(Viviane Vivianes.)

 

 

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