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Cicada Bugs&Carol

Michael Lee Johnson

I walk
this pain &joy
like a deity
with you
4 life it seems
inhabits us
like a run on
sentence
4 no assumed
reason.
17 years together
since the last calling
of the cicadas-
nothingness
but for their noise,
loud buzzing wings,
no reason to stay
no reason to part.
We smell
Lilacs bushes
together briefly-
take down
an apple or 2-
ride rusty
old bicycles together
to a destination
neither of us
have been
to before.
Nymphs drop
to the ground
& burrow the wood,
again.
Will I see
you in 2024?

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