Nick Flynn Open Poems
- 1. Emptying Town
I want to erase your footprints
from my walls. Each pillow
is thick with your reasons. Omens
... - 2. You Asked How (formerly Even Now She Is Turning, Saying Everything I Always Wanted Her To Say)
At the end there were straws
in her glove compartment, I'd split them open
to taste the familiar bitter residue, near the end
I ate all her Percodans, hungry to know
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