Happy Birthday AMC
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By my calculations, today you are 45.
I wish, I would, I ought, I should.
Do you know they've sold the Greyhound Station
To build a 27 story tower?
I used to take the long way, by Peterborough
And Actinolite, and Carleton Place,
And you would meet me, a blaze of sunshine
Whatever the weather.
Our conversation only paused, paused and resumed,
Never stopped; or like the Skootamata sometimes
Iced over, sometimes open, but never still;
until I blasted my longing like a missile,
And dammed the current forever.
Rivers and rain wash away the dust but like rinds
my memories seem only to harden and intensify.
Whenever cheese and honey,
Or sesame seed is specified,
Or baby yellow pear tomatoes,
Or tomatillos so sharp,
Whenever a choir chants under a grey sky.
Whenever things go awry, whenever it's so ob--
And every 28th of April
I'll be waiting in my mind by the Skootamata
For the driver to wave the signal
And we can close the distance to a point.
community | long lost relationships
2021-06-13