Ode to an Oxygen Theif

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Missing someone

is such a beautiful

waste of time

especially when they don't

deserve it,

especially when there isn't

enough room in skyscrapers

clock towers

or

farm silos

for their apologies

which decorate your window sill

like neglected mice;

reminders brushing

against your collarbone

on the way to your 5 o'clock

dinner party,

their name attached to your

skin like a wet shadow.

you lounge around in my mind,

an unpaid intern 3 floors higher

than your salary,

but

I don't miss you

all the time

there is not

enough of me

for that.

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