Please don’t blame me when I avert my eyes
Half-asleep inside melancholy dreams
Just a few deep breaths from the exit sign
Creeping as I come, trampled as I seem
In the leaving there’s a certain romance
Melody of footsteps undiscovered
Echoed in that verse—Ecclesiastes
1:2–but the earth remains forever
How needing just dissolves for a SIM card
And lonely is mistaken for a life
I took the numbers straight, like a coward
My labors left to die in my device
The joy I’ve found in self-destruction mode
Is no secret—at least, the neighbors know…
Irish Goodbye
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