I don’t know if you cared
Or you lied
About wanting to get to know
Who I am
But I can’t stop replaying that night
In my head
With the soundtrack of an 80’s song
Looping around
It’s not words that I remember,
It’s senses
Poems by Tatum Hamernik
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a corpse unmoved by the scene.
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