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This is another prose poem.

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It's called, "I
Would Have Told You".

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"I would have told you, but we
were caught up in the meantime.

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Even the jokes fell flat.

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What's bright orange and
looks good on a hippy?

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Fire.

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And yesterday, my son
bombarded me with lies.

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Neptune's summer
lasts forty years.

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Zebras and ostriches
like to pal around.

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Shoofly pie is a breakfast food.

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Are you surprised that
I sleep for eight days

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straight, stagger into my
shrink's office wearing

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nothing but Saran wrap?

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My son, when he was five, told
me things I'd known forever.

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Alligators can't stick
out their tongues.

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Junk food was once
called lubberwort.

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But now, he asks
harder questions.

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About the meaning of
melcryptovestimentaphilia.

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About where you went.

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I say, a fascination with
women's black undergarments.

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You say, well start
from the beginning.

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My psychiatrist says, I can
clearly see you're nuts.

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My fear is you'll read
all this as an apology,

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or as a request for the
return of my robot novels.

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My lifetime supply of oranges.

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Really, I'm just
sitting here trying

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to get a phrase out of my head.

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'Cheerios, sucka,' which is what
a kid told me again and again

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last holiday season."

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