I listen to music about love and I think of you so I shut it off. I watch a movie where the two main characters carry a thirst for each other, and before they kiss I shut it off. At night the darkness reminds me that I carry you in my wolf throat, a stone I can’t swallow, a howl that removes my skin. So I keep the light on. But I turn off happy. Turn off hope. Turn off laughing like I mean it. Turn into a bird banging myself against the same pane of glass: he won’t come back, he won’t come back.
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