CHRISTINE MISCHELE

It didn�t matter

that I didn�t get stalked back,
as I was on a one way street
traveling into a vena cava
over and over
marching into a dirt farm
on the sidewalk

that words I imagined mouthed
deeply, coarsely never blew
into my neck or my eyebrow
the I know, I know
never written, faxed,
IM�d, scribbled on my dirty car

that I was the boy
in the bubble using sign
language, fore-finger-thumbing
the �L�, the curved fist of �E�
the single finger �T�
and continuing
�LET ME OUT�

it did not matter-
my non-reciprocated love


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