can't fall back asleep

"Karen, are you in love with someone?"

"..Yes."

"Is he your boyfriend?"

"No, sweetie, he isn't."

"Why not?"

"Well, we had our time together, and it was time to move on."

"But doesn't he love you back?"

"No, he doesn't."

"He's silly."

"It's nice of you to say so, but he's got someone else now.
Someone who makes him happy."

"But you were both in love before, right?"

"I don't know, dear. I thought so. I don't think I can ever really be sure."

"But I thought that if you love someone, they love you back."

"I doesn't always work that way. Sometimes we're lucky, sometimes we're not."

"I love you, Karen."

"I love you too, sweetie."

entries from the shower

[Allez, Allez] A childlike voice, clear, insistent.
The answer - only the faintest whisper in the wind

All around              ...the mulberry bush

The monkey              ...chased the weasel

The monkey              ...thought t'was all in good fun

Pop!              ...goes the weasel

A penny              ...for a spool of thread

A penny              ...for a needle

That's the way              ...the money goes

Pop!              ...goes the weasel.