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Wednesday 24 January 2024

A struggle to say anything at all

They were sweet and simple words

No more than to say

Just that he brought all around to tears

By simply saying

How lucky he was to be in love

I cried then, and tears again yesterday

When I re-wrote the memory


What is it?

Am I so soft

That a few words

Can turn me over

So should I now

Begin to eat more substantially

Go and fill out my ignominious frame

For a later-on-in-life reading


You see

This is not a picture

Not a painting

Or a photograph

Where then

Am I to place

The displaced teardrops



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