The door closed.
A hundred times.
Closed.
Even as it swung open
I heard it bang shut.
Closed.
Closed.
Dozen of doors
like many pictures
jerkily animated by a thumb,
tumbling mistily like shadows...
and the click,
click,
the goddamn click click click
of the latch
and it banged shut.
SHUT.
Again and again and again it
BANGED SHUT.
A thousand miserable times.
BANG BANG. BANG.
Always banging shut.
Never a knock.
Think it. Force it.
A knock. A knock. Please, please.
O Jesus a knock. Make it a knock.
Make it someone knocking.
To come in.
Why can't it be a knock.
To come in
into my life.
BANG SHUT