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i. let your soliloquies be private,
a prayer to trees and trees alone--
cargo shorts,
baby hairs,
everywhere soft.
tuck it away:
that song by the kills,
muffled sex under blankets,
apologies through gritted teeth

ii. when the news arrives,
remember this was not special.
a hundred other girls spoke
sottovoce
into his mouth,
felt the blue valley
of his collarbone

iii. watch
but say nothing
as they stumble over his pronoun
& still pinch tiny rainbow pins at his funeral.

iv. flinch every time you see an ongoing truck

v. remember him at all the wrong times:
drunk with friends,
making breakfast,
masturbating

vii. put that record on
& pray
too
loud

Description

i. let your soliloquies be private,
a prayer to trees and trees alone--
cargo shorts,
baby hairs,
everywhere soft.
tuck it away:
that song by the kills,
muffled sex under blankets,
apologies through gritted teeth

ii. when the news arrives,
remember this was not special.
a hundred other girls spoke
sottovoce
into his mouth,
felt the blue valley
of his collarbone

iii. watch
but say nothing
as they stumble over his pronoun
& still pinch tiny rainbow pins at his funeral.

iv. flinch every time you see an ongoing truck

v. remember him at all the wrong times:
drunk with friends,
making breakfast,
masturbating

vii. put that record on
& pray
too
loud