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Upon Your Leaving (Just for the night)

In a desperate hug

we brace our spines

for what feels to me

like one last time,

me and my desperate fingertips

cling to you and plead for grip;

But in vain all ten on fabric slip

forced to settle for a steering wheel.

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Published: May 2, 2010
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