No,
we are not
together
in this,
in that
or the other,
we never were
asked to
ask the milk man
the garbage man
the boy next door
or the cat
if they heard us
when we were
asking each other
if
we heard ourselves
when we
were
together
No,
that did not
happen,
No,
it never did
I came out
empty
as we
swallowed
the cat
by the window sil