leaving_without_saying_goodbye
unhinged 1. a poem by alberto rios in a book full of beautiful poems by alberto rios called 'not go away is my name'. a book that should be read far and wide


2.

we knew it was time for you to go
you had stopped eating
drinking
speaking

and
it was the same day
your dad had died
about twenty years before


the last thing i said to you
not goodbye
but
'she will be ok dad. it's ok. we will be ok.'
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...
unhinged today
as deadlines and breakups loom
it doesn't feel ok

at all
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