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a wasted echo

Tohm Bakelas

chain-smoking cigarettes outside the bar,
strangers with strange faces pass me by,
a night with no expectations
i smoke it away—

the laundromat we congregated in now serves pasta,
and the rooftops we climbed all have cameras,
and the parking lots we occupied have been paved
and so much has changed in eight years.

time can’t be preserved like the contents of a safe,
time is a vice in which you feel life slip away.

eight years, eight long years on the run,
five towns and five houses in eight years,
and i’m back to the place i first left,
back to the place where it all began—

tonight when i stumble home
and the shadows play their tricks
and the floorboards creak
and the moon penetrates the screen
and the curtains
and the window

i will be standing there in the cold moonlight,
staring down onto the street of my youth,
wondering,

where are you?



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