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HELLO

- Tanyapat (Plern) Chaiseri -
Hello.
A common word,
been used so often that
it seems to deliver nothing
at all.
But hello,
I said to the girl behind the glass
with dancing dimples and soaring smiles:
Can I get a ticket to anywhere please?
She laughs.
It seems,
seems like the ticket was misprinted;
because when I got off,
it seems like I got nowhere,
not anywhere.
So hello,
I said on the same spot.
Tap tap; on that veil of glass.
But where's the glass? Never mind,
for now I see her, clearer than glass;
clear as she is.
And hello,
I spoke through the frizzly static of the phone.
If you don’t mind,
let’s say hello in person tonight?
Okay.
Hello,
I said on a Tuesday
when we marched exactly five rounds round the sun.
I want to say hello to you every morning til morning is no more.
Do you?
. . .
Hello.
A common word,
delivered something not quite common;
extraordinary in fact:
You.