potential energy

there was that time in school two of us grown close and comfortable sharing dark beers dreams and visions while we studied and other things absurd

two bright and shining stars

invincible

doing good and righting wrongs

and mostly being seen

anonymous

caped and masked and costumed

long-johns emblazoned with a star

bright and shining of course

donned it once I did

beneath street clothes

for a downtown metro ride

to pick up Thai

a test of sorts 

empowered there and back

while others rode

and read or napped

drained and neutral and oblivious

no rights wronged

no goods done

unless you count the Thai delivered

still sparking with potential through the meal shared

until I found that pepper in the Thai

my first

made a scene I did

blazing

and despite my insulation under

after several pitchers drained

neutralised

and oh so obvious

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