What are friends?
In a concrete sense
How many do you have?
I've lost a few friends
Here and there
Some short
Some tall
What are we now?
Post friendship, I mean
It's like old lovers
It's like estranged family
Sometimes
Old friends
(As in people who used to be your friends
Not as in friends you've had for a long time)
Have ties that keep you in close proximity
What then?
Can you have a past with acquaintances?
Can we keep a cordial distance
While I deliberately
Keep you at an arm's length?
Is it theater?
Is it a fabrication?
To behave like strangers
When we can no longer behave like friends
