Outside of the frame

"He's started dating again."
"Oh so has she."
"Do you think they make a cute pair?"
"She's looking for someone different."
"Oh so is he."

 The same cute lines
The two and half drinks
Predictable compliment
The "I know you from a past life" drivel
Early false promises
The first uncomfortable rift

Glue and unglue
question the shit test

The separation
The same hard words
The same sense of loss
The same game of victimhood

Different angles of blame
The quest for importance
In another's life
Romantic oversweetened slurry

Around and around

The same pick up line
Well timed joke
Buy the first drink
Beautiful inside the picture frame

Even the cynacism
twice as useless, twice as pathetic
The irony inside words
reveals that syrup of puerility

At the bar there on that first date
That first trip
heavenly fantasies and growing expectations
So superb inside that picture frame hanging

The wall holding it up
 is a thick carpet of poison mould
back to your regurgitated idealogies
Acidic in your throat but familiar
...familiar