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Yes there is more than one true love.
Yes but how devastating to be forced to know a second!
“Baby, shh, my regrets look like you.”
“You may know what a baby means
But I know a horse by his harness.”
I downed my juice and walked home
By that one tree that incorporates the fence.
You said, “You made me do this.”
“I wish I had so I could stop.”
I wish you would sit next to me.
You have a chance and so does everybody
To value this, that though yours if you want to
I stood up too quickly to think of now.
Jessica Laser's first book, Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides, is forthcoming from Letter Machine Editions. She lives and studies English literature in Berkeley.
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