Sunday, July 21, 2024

Lost in the supermarket May 2012

 

I am of two minds about all this,

 maybe more multiplying my personalities

each time I think of her,

aching yet not over the usual suspects,

 drawn and yet repelled,

 like that poem she wrote

in which we/they all either cling or flee,

only there is no longer anything to cling to,

maybe smoke or to run away from,

 since she has already left,

all this bouncing around

inside my head like a rubber ball,

 inciting me to jealousy I have not right to feel,

 she, free to be with he or them or even me,

 though she clearly no longer wants me

and I feel lost,

like a kid in a supermarket unable

 to find my way through the long aisle

where I don't belong.

 

 


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