Friday, 10 September, 2010
Volume LIII Number 12
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Poetry
The Downside of Knowing a Poet
Don’t write.
Don’t phone.
Don’t wait
outside my door in the rain.
Yes, I adore you.
I’d do anything for you,
except ever see you again.
Your sorrow
is so tangible
I can taste it,
but our last parting
was so perfect,
it would be a shame to waste it.