I Made A Mistake

 I reached up into the top of the closet
and took out a pair of blue panties
and showed them to her and
asked "are these yours?" 
and she looked and said,
"no, those belong to a dog.
" 
she left after that and I haven't seen
her since.
 she's not at her place.

I keep going there, leaving notes stuck
into the door.
 I go back and the notes
are still there.
 I take the Maltese cross
cut it down from my car mirror, tie it
to her doorknob with a shoelace, leave
a book of poems.

when I go back the next night everything
is still there.
 
I keep searching the streets for that
blood-wine battleship she drives
with a weak battery, and the doors
hanging from broken hinges.
 
I drive around the streets 
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.
 
a confused old man driving in the rain
wondering where the good luck
went.

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