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I told my doctor
I’m all bite right now
not ready to be held

she took her heels off
tucked her feet underneath her
and adjusted herself on the chair

–

I never set out to write
a thousand pieces of prose
about love
but I’m close to the end
and that’s what these things
are adding up to

well
love
and sex and midnight lakes
and fathers and daughters
and wives and sons and cigarettes
and mistakes and cancer

a thousand
and I’ll finally write
a genuine letter

maybe a thousand more