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.

****

 

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.