Twenty years ago
I had a fine affair
Online
We never met
Rarely talked on the phone
It was literary
Strictly apex and exotic.
It ended of course
In due course and I
Was sad for a time
But tossed it off
Thinking only in passing fragments about him, wisps of nostalgia.
I looked him up on Facebook today
On a whim
And read some posts
He is now
Noxiously railing about foreigners
And anarchists
And government.
Just goes to show you why you should
Let sleeping dogs die.
