THE FIRST ACT
Sometimes, once or twice in the long year
I just close my eyes and give up the act;
let myself drift and think of you
remember how I thought you were everything,
Don’t remember when –
Laid clues for the last of my friends
and sat quietly, waiting for it all to become predictable.
(Written somewhere between Birmingham and Berlin, September 2013)
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