Eventual Valentine

After certain preliminary exchanges
the death rehearsals can begin
in the dream mind dioramas
of each littlest one of us
so eventually we have to move
next door to ourselves trying
hard to be good neighbors
by ignoring as many clues
as possible which if you remove
the concept of ‘too late’
the whole pedestal crumbles
and in the shadow lines
for a few clear seconds
you get to see the scaffold
underpinning everything
and holding it all together
the bodies piled there.