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I've decided I'm here to be absurd.
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I offer you a peanut butter sandwich full of unconditional love
and you say I'm being controlling, so I let you eat cake, eat cake.
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I have one advantage, though:
I am a woman, not a fool.
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It was if you memorized my ever detail but not the why.
And perhaps that is what love is. Was that love?
I lie in bed waiting for the man who came after you
to join me. I hear his heavy footsteps and know
he wants to go to Hawaii too,
when our bud
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collar of stars pale blue
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I think you’re overwhelmed, but I think a lot of things about you and not all of them are fair.
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-- as if I had / only rung the rusted bell --
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He checks the bedrooms first,
then the hallway,
followed by the living room
and the bathrooms.
When he can't find you he takes to calling out,
daddy,
I'm sure the neighbors hear.
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"Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. It doesn’t mean anyone is to blame - It just is."
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He tells me that he thinks he reached out as he needed healing
and I wonder if I should diagnose him on the spot,
explain what years of therapy taught me about him.
I don't.
Instead I compliment a photograph of the pot plants he grows, organic,
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“I have a theory,” she said on their first date, which was at an Indian restaurant where the music was a lovely singsong but the chef seemed enraged as he clapped a ball of dough between his hands, then threw it into the flames. And her date, whom she…
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two pairs of arms and legs
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If I seemed disappointed after our conversation,
then, for the record, that was never the case.
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