A PLAINTIVE LETTER FROM MY LOVER
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A PLAINTIVE LETTER FROM MY LOVER

Dearest,

I’m here monitoring study hall

Which is karmically my punishment

For the transgressions of my youth;

The stolen car, the fist fight. And the two detainees

Sitting in the next room, reading Out of Africa

While I wam wishing I am somewhere warm

On the other side of a headache. Thinking

About the poems I have yet to write – and you

Just a train ride away.