Pressed shirt, faint smell of dust.
Train ride into sunset.
A stranger in the window.
Washed-out sky. Eyes half shut.
Cars scream through high-rise coffins.
Motion dissolves each face.
Butane snap. Cigarette flares.
Fills his lungs with regret.
Exhales like his first breath.
Neon night fades into jazz jungle.
She walks in.
No name. No tomorrow.
The night slows into static.
Confess. Kiss. Collapse.
In no order.
Last drag.
Ashes fall from his fingertips.
Smoke fogs the rearview mirror.