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5 Days Sure, we'll all pay them back
someday- but we can't make it
you can't make me do all the this week, it's only
pushing 5 days and
I said don't tell me I've got Friday comes so harshly
quieties when mothers' lovers don't call
inside of me to say good-bye
that you can't break to hymen in her dictionary
with other silences like
pianos and car singing and other so I drink them.
children with Cherries, you know
that don't know how to go away all that ginger, and bubbles
like I'm in the wrong coat, today that never come up
of blood lines to him in the mail
dawn break excretions the post office is only open
that can't pack up so long.
and go on vacation
I won't forget my toothbrush but still, we love them
for you- I don't know how I guess, like new neighbors
to talk without whispering that aren't too arousing
dirty declinations that come out to the womb
of my mouth that doesn't get flowers
and lungs that don't function on Christmas but Ash Wednesday
without you
instead daddies,
and they ask why I'm so good week-long friends-
with titles and things breath taking enemies
that make such difference get happy
in a world that falls asleep within a year of hair, real grey
when Little Girl gets raped and five day borrowing
of technicalities and things called if you don't want it
dreams don't put it in your shampoo
that I buy for you at the market
we cannot fathom. who forgot the price of babies
but I've got my keys and red wine, too.
to open bones
when liquor gets easy A. A. Rupert
and stokes become the way to
inanimate heaven
goose bumps and zeniths of life
are grants between us.
