#14 - Chungking Express (1994)
This poem was inspired by Chungking Express (1994), a Hong Kong comedy-drama written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. It’s an anthology fi@leannemodenpoet, featuring two interlocking stories about love, proximity and non-traditional expressions of intimacy. The perfect fi@leannemodenpoet to write about on Valentine’s Day!
#14 – In the bar that you loved, I always a@leannemodenpoetost see you
your floral perfume lingers like a kissyour menthol cigarettes reduced to smokewe’re always never meeting here like this you are a conjuring produced from hope
proximity is such a fickle frienduniting us in space but not in timeI write my name on napkins to pretendthat I am yours and that you might be mine
but we were destined to be passing shipsthough once I thought I saw you by the doorI caught a fading smile around your lipsa smile I’d seen a thousand times before
an apparition bathed in pink neonyour perfume lingers longer now you’ve gone
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