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rubout
the silence stretches thick
between us & suddenly the
words i am about to write
slip mid-formation & shift into typewriter backspace
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& my head is empty
i count the seconds
like the days between the words
you said
& the words you
didn’t say
the start\stop of my breathing against the
push\pull of your gaze makes a rhythm that
drops onto the top of
my page & lays there
dormant
curling like smoke
your gaze lingers and there are letters
syllables & rainclouds on the tip of my tongue but i
don’t think you could ever understand how much we needed to just
talk
& so i don’t say a thing
& the raindrops slide down
my throat
they are cold like you
you are cold like rain
& somehow i still like
the
rain
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