Falcon, that was his name
when we met.
The first person I ever
chatted to on the
internet.
Told me he was ‘in security'
told me a lot of things
actually.
 
Amazed, I was then,
to be talking
to someone in Australia
who had just been out
walking, in the bush.
He seemed so
cool
and I was taken for a fool.
 
Contact followed contact
in a headlong
virtually hedonistic,
dizzy, breathless swan
song
and though the bitter taste
still lingers I'll always have
these
itchy fingers.