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Poetry Partners #86

A poem by Anne Morrigan of ‘Anne A p a r t’

I fell in love Precisely
because you asked me not to
said I was foolish
one of thousands
a fly in your soup
Common.
but you had to concede
that you revealed
yourself to me
so what I could not control
I reveled in
thinking, one day
I’ll tell you
what all we have in
Common.

• Anne Morrigan: https://anneapart.com/

Asevenlingby ben Alexander of ‘The Skeptic’s Kaddish’

EPIGRAPH:

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don’t know how much in common that they have.

–Ernest J. Gaines (1933 – 2019)

One day, I’ll tell you what all we have in common when you return forsaken; defeated; perhaps not of your own volition. One day, I’ll tell you what…