POETRY
People Song
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1 min readJul 12, 2021
Good days
Bad days
They come and go like rain
Like strangers passing on a sidewalk
Like cracks stepped over
Don’t know them
Don’t stay long enough for more than a taste on the mouth or a smile intercepted meant for someone else
And then that embarrassing feeling
Pretending that wave to someone not there
or
Acting: “Oh, I thought you were someone I knew.”
I thought you were a day I had
A very good one
When I was in my 20’s
I read the kinky parts of romance novels in line at the supermarket
You were embarrassed but laughed too
Later that night we fell asleep and it was taken from under us
pulled away between blinks —
— and back on the street
The cracks
The quick faces
The spaces between the raindrops
