Dear Friend,
Your beauty has been taken from
those many days you sat–waiting–behind
the front door. I longed
your companionship,
but you know how it is:
slave hours away,
caught in that awful, necessary
world.
Don’t ask why
you are still sitting
behind that front door. Flies
now wait with you
and when home, I bat them
in hopes they
won’t take you just yet.
I could not come [...]
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