You took her to your champagne suite
With rose petal blankets and the hands that were once mine
Did you kiss her like I imagined you kissing me?
Are you going to marry her?
Are you?
I bet her pale cheeks blushed with all the pinks and crimson hints Mother carries from her roots
I bet she exhaled words that weren't true
Could I be right?
When you fell into her, weak-stale-false-
Did you remember taking me to the tower to dance?
No, you haven't thought of me in ages
And, I, I have thought of you every day

Was her skin-a delicate lace--as it appears?
Do you sink your mouth into it like a child's favorite candy?
Fuck you.
But I can't say those words to you!
I can't because you, you are the perfect stranger


This is turning out to be a rant, huh?


She is everything you wanted in me
Since the one you loved, before
You said you were sorry, huh?
I hope you have the most beautiful of children
And in ten years, sitting on your porch---
I hope she forgets it is your birthday.

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