Divorce Song

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Divorce Song

Johanna M. Vining

I want to say it was, but

it was never about me

jealousy captured slime heart

affidavit of regularity, of plaintiff

sworn statement

remembering: love forever

but only until it wasn’t about me

instructions for filing, for severing

heart aside (beating, tender thing)

logical stance. We are. We were.

snow ball rolling. week after week

compilation of all those things unsaid

begging for kisses, for affection, for versed vices

meanwhile: neverwas, nevermore, neverwas

crow on my compost singing

1.31.2014

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