03/28/24 "Friendship Bracelet"

It was a mistake
to be here
now.
Favored is the gold
ribbon of the past:
predictable,
amenable,
pliable against
the vagueness
of memory.
I'm pulling hard
into the night,
resisting every sunrise.
Soothing existential
angst in the warm waters.
Everyone can dine
in the place
life stagnates
but doesn't die.
Where the new mantra is:
'Stories we tell ourselves'.


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Ally F.V.