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That’s Right

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on October 13, 2026| 2 Comments »


                  for Vivian
 
 
When you’re not here
I still say the things
only you understand—
Right … Right …
I said last night to an empty room. 
If you were here, you would
have said in unison with me
Right as always, Barbie.
As it is, I said the words myself,
then laughed, then felt 
in my chest the sharp pinch
of you not being here,
a sharp pinch that unfurls
into a petal soft awareness
that you are grown and gone
and it’s something so wanted
but no less hard. 
When you’re not here, 
you are still so here, even 
when it feels wrong, right? 
You live in a here far away 
at the same time you live here
in my thoughts, 
here in this empty room
where I don’t hear you say, 
Right, right as always. 
 

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