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'Sorry'

a Saturday morning poem.

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Minna Ilse Kast
Jun 15, 2024
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Piet Mondrian; Broadway Boogie Woogie 1942-43

I remember being small
wishing that I were tall.

I remember being weak
wishing that I were strong.

I remember being angry
wishing that I were loved

in the way that I asked to be 
not in the way that 'should be enough.'

I morphed and I managed.
I muddled and maintained.

to remember how I was,
is to remember nothing
about me
at all.

sometimes I wonder,
in the deadest of hours,
if I am truly here. 

sometimes I wonder,
whether the floors I stand on
are the same laminated,

lack-luster-in-a-trailer
like gameboard tiles.

sometimes I wonder,
if am I still there
walled in with you.

that this just a quarter
turn-to-the-left 
too far from being safe.

equidistant from the start
at all times. 
paralyzed by the thought

that you are here
but, wondering if I am. 

or will the room turn
and empty me still spilling,
falling onto the floor like her pills

dumping me into the crevices of her trailer
staining the various plastics
parading as somethi…
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