Reed Bye

Join the Planets







Given: dumb & simple
  beat up
talking about a normal life
  in another car
          of that year and color

          Come:
  things aren’t exactly
how you've learned them

And what you heard
  each time about
a momentary breach
  waiting for you to arrive
          or return.  It's just a scarf
found in the seat.
  Shake it out.

  And a "new voice"--
are you
  beginning not to
          have to bother
  about all that?

In exactly two to five years’
  conversations with friends
          you've been welcomed,
curious to think of anything
  as a thing, not that long
          on words, short on goods,
  but in time it does
          "come along"

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