Where you are right now

can you yell so loud that

no one else will hear you?

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Like in a van headed west

somewhere out in Nevada,

a sunset yelp or scream?

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That time adrift alone off

Fagasa can’t count because

all those terns were listening.

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And once when I didn’t know

that she was still there to hear

I let my voice escape, go free.