Later that night: Both of us crying, him sometimes yelling. (poetry)

after the fact of
an argument that escalated

words that should not have been said,
were instead, shouted

He was trying to explain something
who knows?

She didn't want to hear.
So they argued instead about listening
in voices everyone else could hear

She told him, later

that she didn't want to talk about it anymore

He told her, once more
that it didn't matter

Lying, both became quiet.
In that stillness, with only the dust settled.