9.05.2023

Shortchanged

Few want the truth

partner

(as my newly departed 

uncle used to call me

a la spaghetti Western)


but you ain't 

the only one

who bunches up your blanket

at night


and tosses an arm over it

pretending that it's someone

who's worth a walk through coals


though a captain should know

survivor's guilt be damned

that loose lips

sink ships

with strange ejaculations.


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