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SUNDAY PRAYER, cxlv
time & time again
as i go i leave a part of me
behind: germs, dirty spoons, hair
pictures taken here and there
the smell of smoke that yellows walls
and blackens smokestack bellows all
i was the lips and the fires
and the smokes and the sickness
that they sired, i am i am
time & time again
and when i leave the table littered
and repaint the walls a bitter white
the weeping key of appetite
invites the theft of all the homes
i ever loved and left to roam
clever are the clouds up high
that drift forever saying
their goodbyes
but you're a birthday
deep with the dayshine
from dusk to moonbreak
the dust of keepsakes
time & time again, i am i am
das - lutz, florida, u.s.a.