from City Limits Blues:
tried to express
my true feelings—
lied more than usual.
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couldn’t say yes to you,
couldn’t say no—
that was three weeks ago.
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another crummy night—
thinking of all the things now
I should have said then.
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they way I left
they didn’t need to say
“don’t come back.”
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reading Issa
I suddenly remembered
that life is more
than these present months of sorrow.