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jessica ..beUo,
, "~" ;
I don vt know ie'you will ever To jog your memory of a time
be well
And if· in wanting 'to simplify long ago
Matters I have forgotten
Just how sick you are When trees were your for-
'Struggling, pinned beneath tresses. ,
darkened' .
Blanket I again hear the The sky~your bounty, and the
words,
Haurrt i.nq, breath stealing, grass
"attempted"suicide" ,
And· other sounds strung so Your playfi'eld
carelessly
And you ~ould recall,
Searching,for frogs by the
river
Hunting, them siyly, preying
On their certain moves
And chirping sounds,
Does the pain of this blind Perhaps in the memory of
your too, those
When .innocently driving down Croaking clues and the sink-
an eri)pty ing
Road? Does it bring you~ hand Sweetness of mud
Smashing against the steer- You would again find child-
ing wheel like
As_grief overtakes your body, Joy, forgetting all this
as tearless business
Cries empty your insides onto Of medicine, psychiatrists,
the dashboard? and hospitals
I will flounder for the rest And instead think on the
Of my life i~ I lose you,
~ear childhood companion silky
Peach and rose. streaks
Of the horizon, ,
In trying to help,'I wrap The devilish blue of the sky
"feebJ,e-a rms ' And desire again to wander
Around and offer up Lifetimes barefoot through
,"I love you,"
. You leave. the..room quickly The early morning. grass
Eyes'.carefully pried to the
ceiling . .
Ambling away to safer terri-
'tory
I hoped as I climbed trees
That forced day by the lake
