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Why I Can't Write Romance


by Matt Kang


We lay on our backs, the sky the auditorium
on which our hearts tread the boards. 

Thrush on branches somewhere trill; we 
breath to the rhythm of their song.

"An elephant," you would say. I would laugh 
and tell you that I see it too. But all I see, 
the only irresolute shape in my mind 
that forms and becomes real, is you.

Also, I would think it unwise to tell you
you're an elephant.
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