Monday, November 27, 2017

Self-Love

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If I wrote, what would I write?
That I can’t find my phone?
No, here it is in
my blue-bathrobe pocket.

Looking out from my couch here
onto all points of the
compass—people sad
and crying everywhere,

from Chicago to Maine, to
St. Joseph, Michigan—
people in dire need 
of what I can’t give them.

But finding happiness in
each other, as they should.
How should I not love 
my red ankle-tassel?