Song For An Affair That Never Quite Was

She didn’t like poetry
and she said my songs
were all too sad

we used to sit on the curb
outside the club
drinking wine from
plastic cups

I carried around a pack of her
favorite cigarettes
even though I didn’t
smoke

she had laughter like
like the ocean breaking
on the beach
at 4 a.m.
one night she asked
me if I loved her

and I said
maybe a little but I’ll
get over it

with a exhale
of thin bluish smoke she
paused and said
good.


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