in cities like
Cumberland or Ogden
or San Francisco
is not the distance.
It is never the actual distance.
Distance can be
overcome and the internet
has murdered geography,
left it without breath and
staring upward blankly.
The agony of friends away
is that the pony express internet or
carrier pigeon cell phones or
smoke signal twitter can not
undo the silence.
The silence you get used to
because the distance is constant
and kills the spoken word.
The silence you get accustomed to
until you get bad news.
Until you feel helpless and inactive
and typing on a keyboard
wishing otherwise.
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