Oh no,
Please don't go!
Please stay and talk with me.
Look, this is a picture
Of a dog I had.
See, here is a book
I have just read.
If you go I will
Feel things.
Things I don't understand.
I need you.
Even though being with you
Pulls me along a road of shadows
In a cart of vague dreads.

Tony Crisp

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