Melancholy Hyperbole

Poetry about longing.

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Dead Letter Office

The life meant for you undelivered in yellowed envelope addressed to the home you left when you were nineteen.   Inside the girl with the crooked nose with love for you strong as her arms that would never let you go, a career at the small college by the ocean, and the limping cocker spaniel you would have adopted after finding her abandoned on the beach.   No forwarding address. […]

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