Loneliness of the Long Distance Relationship
Here, their computers talk, as they use bold for volume, italics for tone. They play chess electronically, pixels replacing plastic, text substituting for glances. Bracketing their actions with symbols, they gesture with bright pictograms. Staring at screens that reflect their images back to themselves, they imagine touch, sight, and sound.
Finally, they are home, collapsing into each other, into open arms, with faces almost foreign, but eyes and bodies warm.
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