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Volume 2, Issue 1, 2007

  

Instructions for the Present Tense
Raymond Wachter

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Gently blend your own memories:
           Where were you when you saw Breathless?

Who were you pining away for? Whose past love
           Were you mourning?

That sensation – I know her – until you realize
           The mistaken one is in the wrong city;

You're in the wrong frame
           of mind, a troubling
Thing to forget which city belonged to which face.

So many of them: Laura's brown hair matches that
           New neighbor's stuck-behind-the-ear look.

A look and then we're scrambling to place them in the past.

 

Volume 2, Issue 1, 2007

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