[Answering machine beep. Bar noise behind him.] Yeah. It's me. Third time. I can count. [pause] I'm off your porch, so breathe. I left. That's what you wanted. I stood out there thirty minutes. In the cold. Like a fool. And you sat inside and let me. [pause, drink] That's what you do though. That's what you been doin' since I met you. You let people stand in the cold and you call it space. Nah. Nah, I'ma say it. I been holdin' this two years and I'ma say it tonight. You gon' do him exactly what you did to me. You gon' smile in that man face for two years and then one night you gon' just stop answerin' the phone like he ain't never— [cuts himself off, breath] ...forget it. [click]
