you can recite the first eighteen digits of pi
but when someone asks
if you still taste her peppermint gum
your cheeks go pale
for a moment
you have spent a night
figuring out how fast the train was going
an hour after she left you, departing the station
in a southwest direction
just as the dusk settled at
6:32 PM
her face and your heart growing
small in the distance, a howling speed
that echoed down to the soles of your feet
if the distance between two people is divided
by how much you want to apologize and multiplied by
how you’ll never have the right words to say how
deeply terribly sorry
you are, what kind of poem do you write her?
what is the address of all of those letters and messages
and phone calls you started but never
actually sent? how many dollars
does it take (in gas mileage)
before she takes you back again?
what if you [A] show up at her [B] door
and find that [C] she doesn't
want you
anymore? Answer in terms of
your lips bleeding and your
jaw hurting for love of her.
how much of you is left? answer in fractions,
answer in the crescent moon of your fingernails
digging into the soft of your palms, answer in
how empty your whole body has gone.
she was your everything, she was
every atom and star and word that you have ever learned
all dancing in a harmony that made you
believe in magic
what is the twelfth atom in the periodic table. what
happened to tesla. what invention allowed for the internet.
will you get her back. can you get her back.
prove: this time will be different. prove:
you will be there for her the way she deserves.
thesis: if you run hard enough, then when you show up
you’ll be too out of breath to say much
and she’ll be able to see by your bloody feet and
the hurt in your eyes that
ever since she’s gone
all else has died.
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