As per our agreement, I have
no feelings for you, and
you none for me, beyond
the natural empathy one
civilized human being feels
for another, but please receive
this formal written notification,
sent in a timely manner
in order that both parties
be freed from liability
or obligation for any failure
or delay in the performance
of this agreement
as a result of events
beyond the control
of either party which
may be likely to occur,
or have actually occurred,
superior force events
which could not reasonably
have been foreseen
or provided against,
and which could not
therefore have been evaded
through the exercise
of due care. It is as if
gaps are appearing
beneath our feet, as if
the floor is being ripped
apart by an earthquake,
as if mother earth herself
wereexploding in slow motion
like the last inevitable,
un-turn-back-able, barely
perceptible units of time,
Buddhists would call ksana,
when we both know
you are about to come,
underneath me,
or beside me,
or on top of me,
and there is no ceiling,
and no walls,
and no floor.