11/7/12

Thanks
By Eric Carl


Thanks for everything
Thanks for nothing.
Thanks for the things you said
You’d never do
But did
Anyway.

Thanks for the things you did
For others, for other men
While I watched.

Thanks for the smiles
Never aimed at me,
Never because of me,
Never lasting.

Thanks for the memories
I’d rather forget,
The broken ideas
About “what women need”
That make all other women
Wonder what kind of woman
You were.


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I am a writer who lives in Seattle. I was born in Anchorage, Alaska and have lived in both Arizona and California.