8.9.08

Mutual Exchange

You tore the two of us apart

Like a piece of paper coming out of a calculator.

Between us, only a receipt for goods tendered

Marked “all sales our final! No returns!”

But you’ve put yourself up in the window again

With a bright yellow tag announcing “for sale”

Underneath where it says your name.

 

I don’t return broken merchandise

But have a tendancy to misplace pieces

Lost a piece of me underneath your couch

“you broke it, you bought it”

I agreed to pay the full amount

Saving this paper for my records.

In case I get audited

Or somehow forget that

We’re friends who don’t

owe each other anything anymore.

I haven’t seen you in a while

But I guess it’s true

What they say

That you get

what

you

pay for.

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