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I SLEPT TO SOOTHE A HEARTACHE
by Gerald Yelle
You don’t know how you
feel about a thing
until you check it off your
fuck-it list. It’s even
true of headaches
–and why chewing does
more than add to the chatter.
I slept with the faith on.
Listened to the mice
and the bells. A cork pulled
from a jug. A sax and
squeaky hinge –someone
sampling a loop or looping
a crimp with crickets
in the undertone. Wind
moaning at bedtime.
I moaned for it yesterday.
It took me a week.
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