Love Remembered

all that remains her cigarette smoke crawling lazily to the ceiling her footsteps echoing down the hall the angry slam of a red door from the pavement floats up the clickity-clack of red stilettos the Morse Code for loss a Focus LP caught on a scratch caught on a scratch the same pale pink lipstick kiss on cigarette and champagne glass rain falling now in the open window wetting the still sleeping cat a church bell scatters crows a drunk staggers down the road the end never appears to be the end and then it just is I stumble against the record player Focus get back into the groove "...'round goes the gossip...'.round goes the gossip..."