Two Ladies Poem by RIC BASTASA

to describe the two ladies
who are closer as friends now
i shy away from a word which
sounds like the screech of an
old and out-modeled car and i
joked that the common ground
is

lovelessness,

which on the
other hand, after a while,
as i recoup my senses, though
she laughs on the other line,
instinctively
and hence without much
careful thinking,
i realize that it is more painful
than that word that sounds like
a very long screech of that
old car as
a chosen metaphor,

i listen to it
again
it is worse than
a scream.