Howie Good

 

 

Police and Questions

 
For the Woman Who Walked Out During My Reading

 

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  To what should I attribute it,
an upsurge in sunspot activity

or the general decay of manners?
Please don’t say it was me,

the dull sincerity of my words,
their untreated depression,

that sent you rushing off.
Let me think there was a man

(with a ponytail, perhaps),
a vase of dried wildflowers,

a bedroom wall on which
you put a hand for balance

as you stepped out of your skirt,
your micro panties, and then yourself

and delicately into a love poem.






 

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