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Implications

It's Poetry Month and Poem in Your Pocket Day.
From this end of the world I present a few poems by Chan McKenzie from IMPLICATIONS, 1983.

Come Get Them

There are some principle doubts

some nagging, unanswered questions.

There are some bad feelings

and a certain amount of anger.

There are tears.
There is rage,
and there is still the bitch in me

to contend with.

Yes,
I do believe
you may have left a few things behind.

Come get them.

Two Beats

My heart skipped two beats
when I heard you'd moved
left town
and no forwarding address
Though maintaining my composure
I could feel my smile
fade to despair
as I realized
we had grown so far apart
that I was no longer considered
among your good-byes

From One Player, to Another

Honey,
take your one night stand,

your blaise aires,
your seductive smile,
that open-necked shirt,...
and all those other lovers

that you've been hinting about
for the last thre hours - -

Put them in this bag,...
and follow me into the next room.
If there's anything else
that need be said,
we can talk about it
in the morning.