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Poetry: Separation

SEPARATION

We cannot live in this small place
I need my room/I want my space
We will never bridge this distance
While you continue with such resistance

You blame me and I blame you
It is what unhappy couples do
Guilt is wreathed around our heads
It's all your fault I said/you said

This I speak now without reservation
Ahead lies the canyon of separation
Tomorrow have your lawyer call mine
And we legally will draw the line






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