69 Love Songs

So I'm listening to The Magnetic Fields,
like you were talking about.
"I think you'll like them. 
69 Love Songs is 
the way to go."


And so I am listening.
And I am liking it a lot.
The entire concept is 
really great.


We talked.
And it felt like it
had been forever.
I'd really forgotten
what it was like to 
have a real conversation
about real things with you.


Because you are different
in that context.
You seem a lot more
you. You just sort of
say whatever
and exist.
You get frustrated,
you talk about it,
we talk about dead writers,
living writers we admire.
We talk about all 
the music worth listening to.
And all the things which matter.


I forgot how human you were,
and the sameness we share.


"We have our own club."
You said, because we
find the same things
insightful, not boring.


And if we can't be anything else,
let's just be best friends
in the future, ok?