cutting the line

i’m doing it tonight
your voice won’t hear
my hello
anymore

i won’t
don’t want
your reply

no news good news

and wednesday
is just
another tuesday

i’ll live yesterday
and forget
today’s newspaper

yeah i’ve cut it
–done

there’s a knock at my door

2-19-81
in memoriam Frederick Francis Birkam (9/16/1922-2/18/1981)

Published by Anne Birkam

I am a former librarian who has been writing poetry most of her life.

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