it's quiet here. just the refrigerator just the wind and you're asking me about 1997 the city in the summers we were different then smaller maybe or just less aware of how small we were come back with me come back with me to the place we used to be i've got the map still creased and worn the coffee shop is probably gone now replaced by something with a drive-thru window something efficient and forgettable but the street corner the street corner might still exist and if you came if you actually said yes we wouldn't find 1997 we'd find something else a new insulation a different kind of quiet come back with me come back with me to the place we used to be the refrigerator hums the same song it's always hummed the screen door rattles the same way but if you were here if you said yes maybe the humming would mean something different maybe the rattling would sound like a door opening not closing i know i can't give you 1997 i know we can't go back but i'm asking anyway not for the past for the possibility that we could be in this quiet room together and that might be enough the refrigerator hums the screen door rattles i'm here are you coming
