the razor (for B, 1972-2008)

before you took the razor
you always seemed shining
to me always seemed a
sparkling symbol of the
great movements of the sea
or the blowing of a skirt
in the wind.

before you took the razor
i had thought of you only
as a great and baffling
series of talks and walks
that always went somewhere
interesting.

before you took the razor
i had known you deeply
and with all the gusto
of a garden gnome
bent on scaring children.

before you took the razor
you always seemed to
be somewhere other
than where i was
and it'd been like that
for a while.

i don't know why.

2008-02-27 | 5:01 p.m.
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