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Three

Three is a lonely number. We are three in a boat rowing he and she

and me.

Three is a lonely number.

Parked up handbrake on our lives

held

pregnant in the dank banks of buttery mud we float black slop on.

Three is a lonely number. He takes the oars and pulls the drift forward to

the weir

where the roll of water spins a shell of gloss

that keeps us there till we turn

Back forward toward the pier where our car sits to carry us back to land.


November 26, 2014