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I Wrote on the Day the World Shook

Christopher Hivner

The full swing
won’t lay me over
until the one and only,
the firm handshake
to my look of awe,
answers the jump.

Don’t say “yes, yes, yes”
or “no, no, no”
unless you’ve had a drink
on the rocks
and can handle
the hatred in my eyes.

I am not in love with you,
because you broke
our pact.
I am in love with you,
because I can’t
break mine.

Self-deprecation,
self-introspection,
self-diagnosis,
self-denial,
put them in a bag
I’ll take them with me.

My hands are like stone,
voice a raspy plea,
I am an island
surrounded by myself
a life boat floats away
just out of reach.

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