I laughed at the phrase you used,
Emptied yourself. I thought,
It’s true, there’s nothing left.

I didn’t remember how many
drinks I’d had as I poured another.
Who cares, I whispered to myself,

thinking on our day together,
how glad I was
it was over —

earlier,
four men walking toward the border
were vaporized by a drone

that hovered haltingly
like a buzzing bumblebee
before the stigma of a flower.