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A Little Trick We Have
or Have Not Learned
after Peonies by Jim Harrison
The time will arrive (and maybe quickly
pass us
by) when the stories
we’ve
been telling ourselves
to keep
us alive will prove
to be
some kind of lie like maybe
we
liked the first ride because
we were
told we were supposed
to and
that it wasn’t always this
painful
just the first time or maybe
it was
the exact obsessively
opposite:
everything about it was
ecstasy
and wasn’t supposed to be
but we
made it and moved in
and became the shape of it
even if it maimed us we guarded it
like a
dog because we knew
without
words someone wanted to
take it
away from us without
thinking to ask us or thinking
they needed our
permission.
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