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Poetry: Lonely

The morning I went away

the sky rained tears

Said you'd take me to the airport but you had too many beers

Taxi in the driveway, lemon yellow

Ducked the warm cage of your arms, goodbye

remembering hello

at a dive bar where it was always twilight and I wore black

A flower from the rose man, you looked at me from under your hat

The cab driver wanted to chat

but I had no words, emptied out

My cat, her eyes,

huge, frightened, blue as Spanish skies

Vomit in her cage

Full of doubt

My life is raw, unknown, everything formless, new

Walk into bars

without you

Potato chip breath men slip an arm around my shoulders

No one told me

Loneliness swirls around me like a cloak that

sometimes opens, exposing me, but

no one looks so no one sees

The morning I went away

the sky rained tears

Now I do too

Does anyone hear?

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