Poem 195: Julia, Julia

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Julia, Julia


To not know

your name would be

sweeter


Than the taste of it

falling off


my tongue


Like it hasn't done so

a thousand times

before


I would like to forget it

not you

but what you're called


To me you were

everything but your

name


Yet I can never cleanse

my pallet of it

it's like it never left .


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