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a pluperfect kind of past

i.

she doesn’t remember me
not the old rock & roll songs
we used to danced to
taking cocaine breaks
back in the dressing room

ii.

I’m nearly her age
but she looks twice mine
at least from my perspective
— that irreversibility of time

iii.

I hear people saying
when did I get old darling
and they say baby
you’ve been timeless
since the day you were born





april two thousand twenty-three
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