B Roll
We all try to describe
what we love
how we love
what happens when
a stranger sat near me
on the Chinese bus to DC
he asked me
to describe who
and what I've loved.
I am not
a chronological person
some people go
from young to old
now to then
they know years
and information.
He was a lawyer.
He asked questions they teach
when you become
a journalist
lawyer American Historian
who what where when
parts of a story. I told him
how Mike fell in love
on the telephone and I
loved Mike for that. He wanted
to know how old Mike was had he ever
been married. After a while
he understood my story
was about how Mike's heart
he could never explain what happened
how Mike's heart
he worried it was closed because
he couldn't feel the way he wanted
even though he tried
date after date
Mike's heart opened
on the telephone by a woman
whose voice went
right through him and he knew
that was what he loved.