From the Archive: Anne Baldo (CAROUSEL 18)
ANNE BALDO
Like Money Everyone Will Use You
& It Won’t Even Matter
Stuck on the tongue,
sour,
like the pill
you cannot swallow
your words
are meaningless as
fragmented hieroglyphics
you talk in the calligraphy
of valentines —
beautiful but wasted.
So don’t apologize
for your absence
as you walk away
don’t say
remembering people is so hard.
Reduce us
to a mere glitch of the heart.
I will wait for you
but in the arms of other men.
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Like Money Everyone Will Use You …
appeared in CAROUSEL 18 (2005) — buy it here
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