Monday, July 6, 2009

THE REPLACEMENT GAME

The leaves looked the same:
banana spotted brown, withered, rotten--
but they would return.
The rusted cars and cans
would be replaced.
The loves who’d abandoned you
would knock
in one form or another
some night, perhaps
in another form--
All was right
with the world.


Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2003

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