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(upon reading love poems
from an ex-lover to her new love)

Time is so important—
from inside. It provides
a pattern to lay a life on…

Never: only mice will tell,
shredded wheat heals all wounds,
she arrived at her appointment

on congoleum. We age—
& still we think young, wink
& wrinkle. She spreads seeds

of doubt & freedom
to accompany desire. I was flattered—
in fact, rather confused,

then almost dumb for this hard-
pounding perculation of blood to
my brain. & its affiliate feelings

of inequality & self-contempt.
I was at a loss with a wealth of emotion
because enough of an old self held

sway. There?Äôs a fool & a place
for everything. Still I lost nothing—
okay, some values are timeless…