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Buttons

Greg Moglia

After we dress, walk into town
After she says again I love you
After I say I love you

She turns reaches for my shirt
Tries to button the second one
I turn, look at her Stop; I like it as it is.
She says That’s not the way I know you

You’re a one button open guy.
It was your look when we met
I say No, that was the more formal me
Today I’m two open buttons

She gives her best unhappy look
And we go to dinner at the Cafe
When she leaves I know that
We have had our first fight

So silly, so over nothing
Just button the button, just leave it alone
One wanting the world to look just right
The other wanting to look right for the world

I think of Rilke’s letters on love
The lover grants the other their solitude
Not easy he says and a tension stays
I always thought it would be easy to love

Find the right person and bingo...love
Just keep those Valentine cards coming
Oh, c’mon I said I loved her
What’s this button but one small favor?

Let the world look right for her
But button or not something lost
That makes it sad
Small but sad

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