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Value Judgement
Tell me this is bad for us:
while I feel a lingering sweetness and smile
from a memory’s projector screen,
neutral as cotton binding the hurt she patched for me,
until her voice is infused the color of daylight,
a she-cat, lounging, purrs inflecting
each word to me, smooth like milk on
a spice burnt tongue, all for me.
Tell me this is bad for us:
as I wake sweating under the hands
of the past, and but for the weight of fingers
on my temples and the smell of almonds in my mind
I would rip my vocal cords to ribbons, fighting
the intangible dread; when my calendar turns to
difficult days, I don’t borrow the car or
take sympathy (pity),
I just wait and let her take the lead.
Tell me this is bad for us:
This? No. This is help and medicine, balm for
memory and slights and the hurts big and little.
Tell me that you are bad for us:
You might just be right.
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Some truths best left unspoken.