Small Talk is Whatever

Strangers are

ok

they're willing to discuss God

i.e. weather

the heavens, primitive selves

they don’t mind that you’re no longer a citizen activist

they only care about cloudy infinities

things felt by skin, by nerves

together, you talk about your bodies contacting air

changing your hearts; your brains; your moods;

your bodies are whole, and new, and everything is connected to everything else

you talk about what “it’s” going to do as though you’ve already established a code together

you smile at strangers because of your mutual understanding of “it.”

It’s “doing” something and it will be “doing” something else, later, hopefully.

You don’t want to look at a stranger and think

“everything will always be the way it is at this moment.”

Everything will always be the way it is at this moment.

oh, no.

“doing” something now doesn’t stop “it” from “doing” something else completely different in the near future

knowing "it" and not each other is

ok.