lily, they/she, don’t be scared
write a poem
EVERY DAY
Ever day they send me
a letter, a little piece of white paper.
And on that paper they send me
the name of some new and strange city.
They send me the names of cities.
They write a little bit about cities.
But for some reason, when
I read these letters,
I keep forgetting to think of those cities.
I keep expecting to open my mail,
and find the city I’m supposed
to think of right now, today,
when I read this letter.
Instead, I get these cities.
I get this town and that town,
and some of the names
are familiar to me.
I get names like San Francisco,
and names like St. Petersburg,
and names like New York,
but I don’t know any cities that way.
I do know the names of these cities,
these town names.
And this is just what I can read.
This is all I can look at.
There are always so many more cities.
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