Turn Left To Make a Right Turn
storm in the air and loud thunder
but as I recall
it was a sunny day
puffy clouds that spelled your future
but not mine, not ours
gates locked because the truth was a fire hazard
I said I would help
I said my pleasure
I said I was happy for you
feelings are only for the weak they said
you don’t look up enough when you’re driving
you laugh too much at the radio
and because you can’t sing
I don’t think you noticed
the sign on route 24 read ‘merge’
I wasn’t really smiling
of course I didn’t want that
that stinging feeling
bumblebees on honey suckles
it’s just that sometimes
you help another to get another
cunning foxes and Aesop told me so
I was well written
but an unused book
always claiming to myself I would be read tomorrow
now I sit in the passenger seat
my thoughts in murky moonstones
listening to your lovely terrible singing
I think you learned how to turn left in order
to make a right turn
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