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The Thing I Never Said

For you are nevermore.
Your eyes' last light 
never illumined mine.
Death prompted us 
to be hasty -
curbed childhood,
sped me past stop signals,
headlong onto adult carousels.
But we must agree over how these hours are 
moving against our wills.
I've remained still until here,
grasping a rumpled-up grocer's receipt
with this budget-buy pen, 
confident of words 
I have space to admit now 
and bury in poetry's 
kinetic cemetery.
I'm sure I loved
your faulty teeth's scattered English,
its determined guidance.
I wished my life
had been adequate
to cover your shortfall 
as you had covered mine 
back when I was all but novelty.
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