Thatness

It takes women

to make you realize

how lucky you were to have one

and then

how unlucky you were to have one

because you’ll want more of her

in someone else

and her is not her here

and she is not she there

in someone else

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If only people

were to notice me as much

as I notice them

then I suppose

we’d talk about

how much there was to see

and how little there was

besides the two of us

and the thisness right now

even as we departed

in the thatness later on