Run for Cigarettes

By johntaiyu

We made a run
for cigarettes
right before bed
together
the other night

and all I could think
was how
for so long
I believed
the days
where there was someone
beautiful and loving
and light and open
like her
for me
were so far gone
I can't even remember

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© 2007 johntaiyu
Published on Wednesday, May 23, 2007.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • elisa On Thursday, May 24, 2007, elisa (1595)By person wrote:

    such a rare appreciation ...expressed beautifully

  • A former member wrote: wow; stately wished and worded. . .a simple clearcut snippet of life and love and longing in such an everyday ordeal; you captured it nicely. ness

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