Parting from the Party

the cold in the coffee I said was the fog come in we having come in from sitting in the wet car in the driveway and walking each other down the dirt road that it was a new thing your insistence and so to be aware of it made by it, shaking and accepting that, not of any nervousness my resistence but the specific conditions the temperature, I said cold and the cafffeine night I said coffee because it was coffee I was drinking, but you weren’t you were drunk

9 October 1974