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Lindsay's Book
part 2

What We Could Explain

what could we explain, escape
        when we ran away or lied?
              how could we explain

that I was what you were
but calculating, side-scheming
an alibi 
          on the way to
                    the cemetery 

          a generation late?

when we began 
I was three years older than you
                    now it's a generation 
as you live forever young
boxed in coral innocence 

and what you would've lost in beauty
you would have lost in beauty
                    answering to no one

     are you dancing for a god?

your mother said 
  it would have ended up entirely different 
  if we had gotten married
    that's what she told my mother

who knows
           there may still be time 
           to make things right
                                        if you want

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