It is her job, after all,
to make him feel better.
Him being he who says least,
his puerile rebellion reduced
to unthinking aesthetic essence.

But most of the things he thinks about
are of no importance to her:

genre as social action,
corporate semiosis,
an episode of the Lone Ranger involving a black widow,
hygienic governance & social morbidity,
the apogee of the asset bubble,
the fluttering of an anxious middle.

(Also she thinks he is stupid.)

Always.

The sea somewhere booms.
A stream rushes loudly.

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