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#1

If you have extra family,

I could use them.

I can keep them really close

(there’s a room)

so they don’t sneak away 

to be a family without me in Houston.

And even if they did 

I wouldn’t care.

Not even if something bad happened 

to their house while they were still in it.

#2

poor baby.

first you’re gone, 

then forgotten.  

it never occurred to you

that things might’ve gone 

the other way ’round, 

that greying embers 

under empty kettles

and candles lit

during the break of day

could be your only company.

You’ll never wonder 

how long the hammer 

will hang behind the door. 

#3

I luve thee dear.

I luve thee

   

luve I; thee, 

lass, thou Luve seas,

Luve life melody:

rocks sands sun;

It seas miles dear,

I thee, still, dear, Luve!

--after Robert Burns, “A Red, Red, Rose”

 
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