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The Crackers

I was furiously typing words,

Words I can never say to you.

Words you can never hear from me.

Words without voices that are mine.

As I was typing,

I was eating crackers.

Then I realized,

The crackers are very unlike you.

Do you know why?

Because I can never miss crackers.

I can never love crackers.

I can never want to always be with crackers.

A cracker can never be you.

But why?

In this fucking lonely night...

Why am I with a cracker?

Why am I not with you instead?

Why am I sulking missing you?

Why can't you just miss me too?

So yes.

A cracker is not like you.

But for what it's worth,

The cracker was with me when I was typing furiously

Making a free-verse poem about a cracker...

But mostly about you.