By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 18 August 2000

Don't Take This the Wrong Way, But...

no. i don't miss him. i don't even know him.
it doesn't matter that my heart cartwheeled when he-
and he came to me in more dreams than anybody else (ever)
and i thought he was clever and witty and compassionate
and fun and someone i wanted to meet and eat tacos with
i know the myth that surrounds him
i know his sign
and yours
and mine
bizarre love triangle? not quite that concise
and clearly defined
but nevermind this
it's a leftover
from my days of stealing love from babies
and going crazy because I couldn't see the road
i told you about him
because it was true
do you honestly think that Swedish chic
ever told her husband
about the guitar bouquets from Elvis?
but I'm not Swedish
and he's not Elvis
and this is going nowhere
...let's go to bed and play six degrees of Nick Nolte
(just to be different)

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