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or that time we didn’t
sleep for two days
crawled into bed thinking
bugs were crawling in with us

I saw you rise
like the sun with a crooked
smile that never went away
no matter what was said

I just wanted to lie on you
like a broken down streetcar
and have you have no questions
about the fixing or lack of it

everyone said they were
going out of their minds
but you sat still
ate frozen produce
told me you were never
going to get warm

something I imagined you said

I listened to you listen
to yourself and the way
you favored all the soft vows
and hung on the hard consonants tripping off
your front teeth