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To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

T. S. Eliot taught us you can write about your nervous breakdown, but call it 'The Wasteland' and make it big and crazy enough to hide behind.

I say every dog looks like no other
but that isn't true. Not entirely.
Difference is slippery.

You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.

You were. You are
The brightest thing in the shop window
And the most beautiful seldom I ever saw

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

And now the question: what do we do with the longing
for what can destroy us?

Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.