Dialogue #7: Solipsis

(+) Who goes there?
(-) You.
(+) Hmm.
    Carry on, then...

Dialogue #6: Commiserate

(+) Come on in!
    The water's fine.
(-) It's poison.
(+) Oh...
    Well, hurry up, then!

Dialogue #5: Slipstream

(+) There's no time!
(-) Of course not.
    Because you're wasting it
    with your banal observations!

Dialogue #4: Cursory

(+) Why am I here?
(-) Because two humans
    engaged in sexual intercourse.

Dialogue #3: Elision

(+) I'm not dead yet!
(-) Nor were they,
    at one point.
    Yet look at how
    nonchalantly
    you walk past
    their tombstones.

Poems and Prose #28: Actuary

"I'm a good man," he uttered,
his back to the mirror
and his hands freshly washed.

Dialogue #2: Memorandum

(+) Don't I know you from somewhere?
(-) Yes, I believe we met
    several moments ago.

Dialogue #1: Crooked

(+) You're not a crook, eh?
(-) According to our current legal system,
    that is a factual statement.

Poems and Prose #27: Ambulatory

An unleashed maniac
skulks through the fog,
his gaze trembling and fevered.

"What to do?"
he asks the wind.

"Keep going.
You're nearly there,"
comes the reply.

He licks his bottom lip
and smiles
at the salty cruft.

Another step,
then a dozen,
then a dozen more,
and ten more dozen.

And he hears no more words,
no more hints or clues.

Only the sound of air
against the walls of his nostrils.