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Songs in Another Room

I hear a song in another room.

It croons, muffled through drywall,

Struggling thick in my ears, a clarinet

Leaning, languid, against my eardrum:

The slither of a drying salamander

A tongue's flicker away from water.

Please, bring back your wretched bass.

Quake your apathy through our doors.

Reverberate my anger back into memory.

I can discern your tentative wriggle of the lock

Before you sing the entreating song of my name.

There's a poignant rest, awaiting my part to begin,

And my resolve wavers, imagining relief.

The most tense strings only want to to sing.

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