Cecilia (from Degrees Kelvin, Beer, and the Price of Oil Paint)

I’ve been told that was her name:

Cecilia.

(you’re breaking my heart)

From Latin:

Blind.

(you’re shaking my confidence)

And all I know about her

is that she passed her wretchedness on to me,

and I haven’t seen her in

eighteen years

eleven months

nine days

six hours

twenty-three minutes

and

seventeen seconds.