fourteen threadless needles #11

11 - to be intoxicated by sleep

- is this possible?
- to be intoxicated by
- sleep?
- probably not
- lack of sleep, maybe
- don't say maybe
- by then, back then, it was four in the morning
- you thought there would be a tomorrow?
- it was already tomorrow
- and so
- and so
- you thought there would be a day after tomorrow
- yes
- how thin was the ice?
- at first it didn't seem thin at all
- when you both fell through?
- it seemed like it wasn't there
- and?
- and when we tried to break through again
- because you never
- because you never surface through the same place you fall in.
- and when you tried to break through again
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- could you see her
- looking up through the ice?
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