Maggie Maloney

Here and There

 

 

We have found ourselves alone

 

Through death

Through words

Angry and bitter

 

Clinging to the cigarette and booze filled old house on 44th Street

begging for someone to tell us -

why we survived

 

She died

He died

I lived

You lived

 

Yet we are no more honest with each other

than we are to those that lie in the grave