Synapses

Your friend who texts from time to time and gives no proof of life beyond the muffled buzzing of the phone in your pocket, the one you answer only after thinking long and hard, weighing pros and cons and concocting an excuse robust enough to put him off without tarnishing the image of this long-standing friendship, this friend you suspect may be suffering in silence, is the very same one you once enthusiastically saw every day, while now you're happiest thinking of him only when you have no other choice bcause the thought fills you with guilt.

FromSynapsesby Simon Brousseau, translated by Pablo Strauss 2019. Published by Talonbooks.