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you’re listening to a female
vocalist on the tube
with your head
knee deep in a
avocado
like a joke
and I take it serious

my head is arm deep
in a drainpipe
and I wonder why you
make sense
when those circuits
crossed days ago

I cry a little to ask for food
and to claim you’re deaf
but I’m prone to embarrassment
so I want to leave before
I get what I need

I keep growing a spine
and leaving it outside
let it wilt in the rain
but you weren’t clear
in the first
isn’t that why you roll
naked on the floor
right to the door

I’d ask for your crutch but I see
it looks like one I left
long
long ago