By chris
Date: 2004 Jun 30
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[[2004.06.30.23.07.22353]]

getting the mail

the walk to and from the mailbox
equals exactly one cheap
cigarette
no more
no less
perfectly suited
for evenings on the high desert
which are swords
of the double-
edged kind
peaceful like childhood
quiet and calm like the grave
and tonight i find
among the bills and coupons
for things i'll never buy
a postcard
direct from your remote
and faraway
green impossibility
ringed by water
and glacier
and mountain
and my eyes tear up as i think
the thoughts
i haven't wanted to entertain
since throwing them out
of my apartment
three months and four days ago
and this world stops again
like it does
each and every time i'm reminded
you're in it