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6 years ago
2003
Postcards from Saigon
yellowed pictures
pants rolled up to his knees
dark ray bans
thick rims
raindrops on lips
or raindrop lips
his eyes,
a different shade of brown
those that say
“buy me a beer
before I change my mind”,
dusty eyelids
a scar
lingering
under his eye
a dog-eared book
in his hand
where he wrote in the margins
These
are
the
lines
that
prove
that
my
existence
is
a
mistake
but you only read
the pencil prophecy
after
you had kissed him
after
he had taken
all of those
painkillers
after
he had written that letter
saying
“I too
was once loved,
but not by you”.
© Margaux Emmanuel 2018
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