Love Poem: Raw
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Written by: Arlo Parker

Raw

I cried to spy you laugh
to see your ballroom choreograph
shameless pleasure with a smile
my heart breaking all the while

a week ago we split
and no way I am over it
tear falls daily catch me up
every time a memory hits abrupt

your joy laughs at my pain
and those sneers bring such distain
as though we never were a we 
all torment surrounds the lesser me

from the ooze I will connect
as much of me as I recollect

(raw)

[a re-post circa 1991)