i have always told you i would join
your collection of fettered friends
to write about the happenstance
of life and love and lost romance
i have always told you i would join
to bring rhymes and rhythm
or recreate rain by our rolling readings
or raise rings of ridiculous randoms
that rise to reprehensible ramifications
i have always told you i would join
your colloquial commentary for foster-child fantasies
to wonder about the haplessness
of life and love and lost romance
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