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12 Got Married

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12 Got Married

by

William Bailey

Thanks for telling me 12 got married the other day,
it’s only taken me five years to build this wall and I was growing tried of it anyway, while I wasn’t happy, the pain had died down and I stopped shooting junk last spring.
Thanks for telling me she got married and was dressed in white lace looking simply beautiful.
Still as slim as ever.
I remember green was her best color and she love to write in it as well
long letters from Delaware that filled a box in my bedroom, From under the bed I would pull it reading songs she’d sing to me
My fingers ran over the pictures, of us, together in so many places, at home, in love
But thanks for telling me she got married,

I was seeing my therapist once every other week and now find that I am lonely for our weekly chats, and she need a new car, I’m glad to help with payments.
I don’t need to replace the knives yet plastic works just fine

and I could trade in the Turbo for something a bit slower anyway,

but thanks for telling me
12 got married
It’s been years since I’ve heard her name spoken
I’ve changed all my friends and rarely come to the city at night.
My phone number’s unlisted and I only drink in gay bars
She’ll be honeymooning in Montreal you say
staying on St. Catherine street.
She will spent time in the old part of the city and ride the horse drawn carriages there
Lunch outside in full days sun cafes
Dance late at Rock Heads Paradise
Come back to her room and make love to exhaustion
then write, with her back to the rising sun,
songs of his beauty
sip white wine and remember his taste
slowly wake him and start it again.
Thanks for telling me 12 got married
now stop crying and help me with this wall
I know I put something useful behind it.