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I'm Not This Way

We built a little night

but you emptied it.

Your Dublin beachhead

is all undertow.

Dead menus blow from

one gutter to the next.

Westward parks

fill with fever.

A gibbeted sun

hangs ignored.

O darling...

I'm not this way,

I'm not this way -

remember what I am.

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Published: Feb 28, 2021
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