Tag: Relationships
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my lost list
sooner rather later, I’ll make a list of regret follies stupidities much better yet one of people I’ve wandered past. opportunities lost those better left yet forgotten I have a draft I refer to it often But you won’t be on it.
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Mr and Mrs Catface
Mary. Next time don’t ask for a Catface. Because that’s what made John smile. At you. So, I asked him, “Catface for you too? And John’s little Laura nods. She says, “A Kitty for me.” Meaning I sat him, you, and Laura together. That’s when it happened. You introduced yourselves. Next you’re both smiling at…
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Wouldn’t You?
Meanwhile the graduate girl to my right is smiling. Not at me. Nor at the cardboard coffee tray she’s found for her order. No, she like me, is watching a family order.
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The Sky was NEVER Blue
I’m driving looking outward and around that day. I’m watching the road, admiring the clear blue sky. A beautiful day, the sun is shining, I say. No it’s not, is her only and considered reply. I then espy a wispy thread of cloud that disappears : maybe cirrus perhaps even cumulus. Now there’s nothing between…
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Before Sunset : Holding a Listening for Another
https://andrewwhalan.substack.com/p/before-sunset-holding-a-listening?sd=pf
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The worst gift of love is a spreadsheet
Ah yes the bargain of love gainsayed, If I do this you’ll do that, and your love for me will flourish, because I’ve made it so.
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Wouldn’t it be better?
(In reply to Phillip Larkin’s, “This be the verse.”) https://andrewwhalanpoet.substack.com/p/wouldnt-it-be-better
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Selfish Me
Is it selfish to wish the same fate on another? Selfish to hope that others suffer worse than me?
