5:30 Reservation
Written by Cat Kelso - November 22nd, 2024
You’ve still got your suit jacket on inside,
hiding your soft belly.
You say my name out loud.
It makes me realise, I put my shoes on the opposite feet
and walked around wrong all day.
We’re standing in the bones of a house
and I’m asking you,
‘Where are the windows?’
Summer normally means shaving your hair off
over the sink,
taking wrong turns on a ten-minute drive,
fuzzy sweat and a loud as fuck fan.
We used to suck days dry.
Crumple them up and
throw them in the backseat.
I am talking to you through a fly screen door,
walking back to my car,
before I hear the lock turn.
‘5:30 Reservation’ was written to explore the instability of my early twenties as I began to grow apart from old friends. I wanted to focus less on loss and more on confusion, on trying to reconcile glossy memories with an unrecognisable reality.
- Cat Kelso