Taryn Allan

Heart Fake Hotel

The hotel room is always in darkness
The better to reflect 
This one-night-stand world 
Stuck without a bouncer
Or angelic chaperone
Participants and room alike
Aware of the tens of thousands 
Who’ve done every trick before
An hours love purchased
Ends always the same
With twinned looks of longing 
Through the blank-mirror windows
Night’s density held at bay
By the passionless myopia of the city glow
Tears last only a short while
Indifference is unfailing