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Poems

Abide with Me

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

Was our first date really a boxer’s funeral?
You in pitch, me in black—all in all

a noirish affair, how we felt so at home
with those lump-faced men,

the mourners wrapped in silk and onyx
watches, their Stygian raincoats


soaked.

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