haikus

wrote twenty two lines
of a love letter to you,
threw it in the bin.

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in hyde park last week
I tried to give you a kiss,
but we just held hands.

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ducks on the canal
skidding into the water
quack, they say, quack quack.

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writing a haiku –
harder than it always looks.
write an ode instead?

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newsletters from where
I bought you things in the past
make me want to die.


(the east coast train line,
sheraton in edinburgh,
joy the store and more)

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our lips didn't brush
the last time that I saw you
because of your boyf.

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when I wore those shoes
it didn't stop me at all
they brushed and brushed and...