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Jon Tobias
Poems
Jun 2012
When Writing Love Letters is Synonymous With Defacing Public Property
At the library I look for old books
Ones that might have actually been owned
Before they were borrowed
I write fake love letters on the inside
How I want these stories to change some person’s life
Now these novels are secondary
And the people finding them make up their own stories
They constantly ask themselves what it means
How it relates
In some I make lists
Of the parts of my body that still function
Some
See you final chapter
Some
This is the reason I almost didn’t **** myself
Some
I write what I really want to tell her
How seeing her sometimes
Is a punch to the gut
Like a fire at a library
And I dry heave barely blank pages
She comes here a lot
And if she knew
She might read them and wonder
Why I chose the books I chose
So in one I write
I don’t know
I’ve never been good at telling stories
I thought you’d make up some beautiful reason
And I could say yeah
In the bible I write
I never believed in god
But I also never believed
The story is over
After reading
The end
Written by
Jon Tobias
San Diego
(San Diego)
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