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    Sally Dawidoff



Talking to Yourself Is Fine

Makes you feel much better. And
the exercise becomes habitual. 

Know just where the trouble lies (mishearing
the lyrics where to draw the line). 

One day, among acquaintances, 
an audible talking-to. That careless! 

On the street, revising conversations
over and done with. (The very last intimate passes by.)

Dissoluteness. Navet. 
A nervous complaint. A tin ear.

You are as beautiful as your thoughts, right on?

A long time ago, something broke. 
Talk about that.



This poem originally appeared in Barrow Street.




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