we used to be bookends

Graphics by Amy Hoang
March 28, 2024

again, and again, and again

today you’re a stranger but we used to be like bookends

it’s again and again and again

when i pass our worn out road

I’ll remember when

we raced to piles of wood chips

the pinecones were princesses

we called a tree trunk our home

fall after we spin 

i think of you now 

as if you were dead

you were everything i needed

now you’re a ghost

we’d sit on benches

on top of the world

petty fights 

me & my best 10 year old girls 

time has fled

i still know you 

we were each other’s parasites

you looked down on me

i didn’t know it at the time

idolization made me the worst of your crimes

i don’t know if i can ever

be that close again

it’s lashing, it’s scarring, but i know i’d do it

again, and again, and again

today you’re a stranger but we used to be bookends

it’s again and again and again

when i pass our worn out road

I’ll remember when

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