This is it all
You & I
Need to forget everything we know
Whatever this is
Was broken by you
I trusted but shouldn’t
Silence was your favorite answer
As if
You win by being a
Tin man
You can go without
Love or a
Heart
But if anyone asks
What we were about
Remember I wanted to be yours
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Golden Shovel Poem
Used the line
“All I know is you shouldn’t answer if a man with a heart asks about yours” from Stephen Dunn’s poem The End of Secrecy
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When I was six or seven, my stepdad came into my life, and I remember thinking he knew everything. He could befriend anybody, anywhere. In grocery stores, he chatted with strangers over cuts of meat; at gas stations, he bonded with people pumping fuel over how the smell of gasoline was disgusting and yet enjoyable. In restaurants, he took an interest in waiters’ lives—like Steve, whose father was dying of cancer. When Steve’s dad died, my new dad attended the funeral.
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