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in the dredges of evening
i saw your name.
i blink
I blink again.
It did not fade.
i could’ve sworn it wasn’t real
i could’ve sworn it was a dream
yet you greeted me.
it was You.
we hadn’t talked
in the time flown by
our old words withered with age
long forgotten.
you mentioned a band,
told me I
recommended it to you.
I don’t remember.
we traded spare words,
frivolous in the pleasant way
acquaintances would talk
as if we didn’t meet before then
almost a decade ago.
i find these pleasant words bitter
though for your sake I take them
like children and their medicine.
we did not stay for long
and i was almost relieved,
your pleasant-bitter words
stung me
with their formalities
as if we had not sat alone
together at lunch
trading secrets
and cards.
in the dredges of evening
you find me again, alone
in the dark
laying on a bed that hasn’t changed
like I have.
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