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Jon Tobias
Poems
Sep 2011
On Trying to Remember
It is similar to when you get so drunk
You eat just to feel yourself eating
Or you ****
Just to feel yourself *******
There is this thin glove covering
The memories of us
And I am ashamed knowing that
You fell asleep in my arms
And I canβt remember what it felt like
I tried to sleep in the shape
Of a hollowed log
So that I could feel like
I might actually be able to protect somebody
That the thin shell of myself might at least keep the rain out
I know we kissed
Through the thin veil of inebriation
And you laughed saying that my beard tickled
I want to remember what you smell like
But through the buzz
My olfactory
Became an old factory
That shut down
In the morning my mouth tasted like copper
From biting my cheek in my half sleep
And you smelled like a perfume shop
From the distance of subtlety
Still beautiful first thing in the morning
And I felt just shy of *****
And mostly ashamed
That I couldnβt remember
What you felt like
Written by
Jon Tobias
San Diego
(San Diego)
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