Claire 2 - Simply For Claire Pt2
…I cannot describe them
Or how I felt then or even now
It’s like Mark Twain's dead artist girl
Emmeline Grangerford in Huckleberry Finn
She was alive in her paintings
Something happened and I stalled
Maybe it was a job too far
Or the girl from beyond her grave
Or simply her poems
Or maybe I was human
Or maybe her alive sister
And not killing a pretty village
Ruining their lives completely
What the do I know?
I work in Real Estate and all that
My company is a Forbes Top Ten
But the dead gal’s sister sadly smiled
She passed me nine thousand poems
The house keys and full deeds
And said it’s all mine
And she gave herself to me too
I’m not greedy and need nothing
I’m not money orientated
I close deals and am the best
But I couldn’t close this
Her sister the poems the house
And the date we both had
And following marriage and kids
Cost me my career and reputation
But that never mattered
What mattered was a dead gal
And the poems she did
I fell in love with her
She’s gone but her sis Rosa is here
She intuitively understands
All of it so damn much
I think I do
Do you?
MAJOR INSOMNIA
CORPORAL SLEEP
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