It Wasn’t Too Much to Expect

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https://youtu.be/Jqpjy8Jimzs

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However unwittingly, two men
quite fittingly found themselves
sitting companionably in proximity
on a late afternoon F train today,
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each as if humming a kindred tune --
reframing refrains of the other.
One held a smartphone whose size,
shape and color resembled the hue
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and the contours and heft of a cup
from a thermos his neighbor held up

about at the level the phone occupied, 

from which on occasion he'd sip.
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The eyes of the man with the phone
seemed in tandem to sip data out
of his own cyber brew, and suddenly
somehow I felt I knew more than
.
before that flirtations transpired
between the unseen and the seen —
sipping data or tea unobtrusively
seemed to join both in a mystic
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romance of relation: it wasn’t too 

much to expect an impalpable thought
and a palpable touch to beget yet
another grand dance of creation.
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Or so I decided I'd bet as I watched
the unknowing duet of two men
with a thermos and smartphone get

separately off at the following station.
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