Venn Diagram

I have lost you to sleep again

Sleeping as we do on opposite sides of a venn diagram

I read the time in shadows on your wall

The shards of light through the slats on your window

I ease myself from under your languid arm

I fumble on my boots and hear you breathe through your alarm

And I disarm it for you, you rarely heed it anyway

I wouldn't want it to intrude upon your dream

School bell ring, messing up the play

A note, penned clumsily in this century's type-ruined hand

Saying "Gone down the shops for a walk

I'll bring back some sandwiches"

And then I kiss your face, the black and the blue

I tie it into my laces, I don't want the wander blocking up the view

I stumble out into the afternoon

I'm still salty from drink and the late night pool

And I'll be gone an hour at most, you will be more diagonal

And I've a head on me in the post, I know, a castle swallowed in the swell