When you said "love"
did you mean "write down"?
"Want", "Need Now"
"Find"--
Do you find me?
I found you, swimmingly,
Do you find me still?
Ought I to find
myself as well?
And when I said "home"
did I mean the ground?
"Here", "Address" --
suburb air I populated
with strings of
Vampire Weekend and GrooGrux,
Did I mean "shoes"?
Was each barefoot stroll
down Helen's Way,
Cherry Brook Road
a frivolous, short-lived
nomadic experience?
Home?
Shoes?
When they say "her"
do they mean Charlotte Ann Jones,
with the Birthday
and Social Security Number,
"Red Sweater", "Smile"?
"that", "it", "Everything" --
"Something"? "One thing"?
Do they mean you?
Find you, love, home, shoes?
Did you ask why, too?
first stanza and last two lines of last stanza.
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