Or even you? cause what I am considering:
The nature of epiphany, the glory of serendipity
The gift of coincidence

All we give and all we keep
In our solitary confines, where we
Give all, nothing, receive the same,

Skin to skin can be the same
Face to face with a human of either sex,
Far from any bed or thought of bed

Or it all can amount to a
Big flat nothing. Even if
It was epiphanous, orgasmic and

Involving more than mere skins.
Even if we brought our hearts,
And left them in the room,

We could still walk out,
Wake up in the morning, report to work
Address our screens as studiously

As if we had never left them,
And in solitude give our considers
To our diaries, our stories, our webpages,

Our virtual mutual
Understandings, our blessed
Faceless friendship.

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