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pears MAG
May 20, 2015
here’s to our rhapsodic summers
bowl of pears on the back porch, waiting for the time to
ripen
we floated through the air on our yellow swings, immutable
all I wanted was to be spume on your saltwater breeze
I didn’t tell my mother about the hot-and-cold you pressed into my neck
but after you biked home I brewed six cups of tea and poured them all down the drain
[well then I cut my losses and lay around listening to art songs
trying to pretend my hands weren’t trembling]
at midnight I realized that I hadn’t told you
I always hated pears.
© Dan B., Papillion, NE
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