we felt inspired and wild
she said that this feels like real life
and the rest of the week
all those others besides you two
they sapped me
attacked me
this odd sideways Southern talking
hard to tell what people say
it saps me
it attacks from angles
fuck
aren't we adults
can't we just tell each other
what we need
what we mean
"To live in the South,
one has to be a scar lover."
Well, that ain't an answer to my friend's
struggle with reorienting-
it's the beginning of a new discussion.
Lucia said to me that she thought the South
should name its new museum
"Forgetting and re-imagining our racist fucking past"
which made me think a very Southern thing
"You ain't from around here,
are ya?"
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