Leftovers
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    I can hear you from the room far beyond
    The setting silence and the dancing dawn.

    Just little tunes for me to hear and sway
    To for this never-ending day
    To walk a long, long ways
    And try to be ever so kind
    Around my mind.

    (I laid down and had a thought today.
    She I heard you hear him say.
    Replayed it in the head again,
    Skull shook with a tremor-
    Are these memories dead?)

    They hum to the hushed
    Conversation taking place
    At the train station.
    Sitting in a chair with
    Frosty air coming through
    On the second phone line.

    I play it up and
    Down and round
    To whiff your words
    And find what I want this
    Time.
    On the ground real
    Low,
    I hear them sing
    And flow in your lilted tones,
    That song within
    The words you whisper that
    I’m in not in.

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