feed your friends

arriving home
at 1:19 am
from the out
of town
birthday party show
our band played
in the back
yard
for,
there is no note
from her
in the mailbox
or at the door,
but the black
cat
was waiting
like an old steady friend,
sitting
infront of my front step
as if to say,
i noticed you were
gone,
even if no
one else
did