You are in the settlement.
We were sitting there, and
I made a joke about it.. how
it doesn’t dovetail: time,

one minute running out
faster than other time ahead
it catches up to.
That way, I said,
there’s no waste.
No waste in the settlement.

To come back to
the subject at hand, you,
looking like you are seen, 1/2-
turned around, barely moist, reading me.