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Date Posted: 04:38:22 06/20/02 Thu
Author: Gray Squirrel
Author Host/IP: 0-1pool20-150.nas49.stockton1.ca.us.da.qwest.net / 65.147.20.150
Subject: Please Understand

Please Understand

The last time I was
In the atmosphere,
You said goodbye
For awhile.

And your reluctant leaving
Said "please understand,"
Where you had no choice, but...

But anyway, I watched
"Please understand" start
Up the car, and
"Please understand" roll
On black rubber tires,
Friction on asphault.

And through the window
Overlooking the elevated porch
Of the place I lived in
Before I "lived" in the
Place I "lived" in before
The place I "live" in now...

Over those random years and
Over the bitterbrush and
The manzanita and the reddish
Clay and dust,
Where rabbits and foxes
Dig in and
Compete for numbers and days,
Leaving scat and trails and
Tracks of their
Coming and going...

"Please understand" crossed
Nonchalantly, like it was
Going anywhere, like it had come
From somewhere else, like
Any element of traffic
Crossing from place to place,
Just a car rolling by...
So easy, so hard and
Normal, like...

Like it knew I wouldn't.

Like it didn't mean to say
"So what?" Like it couldn't really
Fire like a floating bullet
And stop.

-Gray Squirrel

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