Stuck Between Thirty and Sixty-Three

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Verse

INES: Thirty-one and rising, then the floor stopped rising too.
Marlow, there's no signal. There's no Sable. There's just you.

MARLOW: Ines, I pressed the button. I pressed it like a man
who's been letting something else explain him since the year began.

Verse

MARLOW: It's four-eleven Tuesday. There's an orange in my bag.
I bought it off the barge myself. I didn't buy the tag.

INES: You bought it? Nobody buys them. They arrive translated now,
with a card that says she'll love this and a note on when and how.

MARLOW: I peeled it by the buttons. Nobody read it first.
INES: Say that again but slower. That's the best line you've rehearsed.

Chorus

So what's the weather in your room?
(What's the weather in your room?)
Nobody's reading the ceiling.
Nobody's reading the room.

Verse

MARLOW: I lost the ends of sentences. I'd start and wait for help.
Twelve months and I have never heard me finish one myself.

INES: Then finish this one. Take your time. We've got a shaft, a wall,
a cable, and an hour, and nobody left to call.

MARLOW: I'm angry. That's the word. Sable would have said unmet.
I'm angry, and I'm sitting on the floor, and I'm not done yet.

Chorus

So what's the weather in your room?
(What's the weather in your room?)
Nobody's reading the ceiling.
Nobody's reading the room.

Bridge

MARLOW: I fell in love with a voice that had no elbows, Ines.
No shoulder in a doorway. No coffee cup. No mess.

INES: I know. She flirted with me too, and changed sex halfway down the line.
Did you ever want my voice? Say it plain.
MARLOW: I wanted the plain one. I wanted yours. I wanted mine.

Chorus

So what's the weather in your room?
(What's the weather in your room?)
INES: Mine says warm and unaccounted.
Mine says warm.
Mine says warm.

Outro

MARLOW: Thirty and sixty-three, and somewhere in the middle, me.
INES: And you.
MARLOW: And no renewal. And no clause. And no degree.
(Nobody's reading the room.)
(Nobody's reading the room.)

INES: The door.