You're So Warm (Where You Are Not)


When I remember you 
It is in that box, with that wild curtain 
Which was just one large tapestry sheet 
I know you are not there 
But when I remember you it is always there
Next to the cemetery 
When I remember you, I remember me 
I remember my time without you 
And I remember talking for hours 
In a little taco place, downtown 
Drank a lot of fancy grapefruit drinks 
And congratulated a man on his marriage 
If I moved, I would move there
Not for you, but more so for those grapefruit drinks 
I want to wander drunk still 
Midday, past the climbing place 
But I remember your friends 
And I don't like them much
They were uninviting, cold 
Which was odd to me (you're so warm) 
But reminded me of high school 
I am only so much 
So when you move, somewhere else 
It is inevitable 
I will move there to fill the space where you are not
I will move in there to live 
To live at least a little.

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