lost again in tokyo

the cute woman on the dating app said something about travel
my mind went straight to tokyo
like blade runner tokyo
future tokyo
tokyo full of promise and lethal robots
the virus arrived and it was all we talked about
stranded in tokyo for the winter
it is sort of how i feel now
lost and running
keeping carbs down spirits up
dreaming of the blue fishes in the woman’s water bed
in my dream
they keep us awake
even after we’d satiated our desires
flutters and bumps
let us know we’d felt something
strange
magical
frightening
foreign
and she was from oklahoma
with two kids under ten
i’m ambitious
but not crazy
still the fish continue in my mind

01-04-25

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