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No Return

John Grey

There comes a point where I realize that train’s not coming back,
nor that car, nor that airplane.
Everything is gone.
If I’m toehold onto anything at all, it has to be the memory
of it’s rear view growing smaller by the moment.
Either that or nothing.

When I was younger, I was more attuned to the side
of the house or rocks or even patches of earth
where I played the same games over and over.
These things always stayed put.
The separation, if it ever was to happen,
would always be on my part.
And what interest had I in breaking the connection?

But eventually, I threw in my lot with moving vehicles
and see how that’s left me.
One person took the train, another drove away
in the same automobile in which they drove in,
and I don’t know how many said, “Damn it all!”
and bought themselves a ticket on the next flight out.

So I live in the side of a house. I inhabit a rock.
I’m the one you see protecting his patch of earth.
The older the desertions, the younger I need to be.



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