Tagged: friends

we made each other

we made each other
wait for too long, time decided
to let us expire
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: expire

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you and i have not

(for kb and gm)

you and i have not
spoken since he died two
christmases ago –
or was it
last christmas,
hand in hand with
ignorance and
legitimate
excuses – in
our hearts, there
are traces
because i have
no secrets from you
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: secrets

a smile can cross the

a smile can cross the
distance – between childhood and
adulthood, now and

then, reticence and parti-
cipation, strangers and friends
.
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we are on a free

we are on a free
couch basis, just enough for
off-the-cuff advice
.
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back when we used to

back when we used to
exchange letters, everything
was more – like meeting

in grand central this november,
recalling the length of your hair
.
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things change

things change.
i do and i don’t i hear
you say.

things change.
twenty years later, you
are eighty weeks and two
days dead.

things change.
i am reading
the days run away
like wild horses over the
hills, and they haven’t
.
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the first day of the

the first day of the
rest of our lives starts like a
simple bouquet – matched

and mismatched, friends and family,
until death do us part
.
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