2.07.2021

once you start, how can you quit all this remembering?

How late it would get. 
Every party 
was an after-party. 
Some nights we'd even let 

ourselves forget that dawn
would soon come. I do not want
what I haven't got. Mostly it did.
Sometimes the morn was met

less alone, her beauty & scent,
her buzzed head numbing your arm.
Once you start, how can you quit
all this remembering? We make

love like memories, if lucky
& not too late.
 
[Kevin Young {1970- } 'The Last Day of Our Acquaintance', from Brown]

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