Lying and Laying

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Lying and Laying

You

lied.

I stand

at the edge,

seeing you lay there,

far away, small, a broken doll.

How could you fall so low after saying you love me?

Couldn’t you love yourself enough

to love me enough

to choose life?

I know

you

lied.

(after the undated and untitled photograph of a man looking over a railing, by Francesco Verolino)

5 thoughts on "Lying and Laying"

Kevin Nance says:

June 9, 2024 at 8:28 am

Interesting lineation here. May concrete, like the man looking out over the railing?

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- Lennart Lundh says:
  
  June 9, 2024 at 8:26 pm
  
  Thanks, Jim.
  
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- Lennart Lundh says:
  
  June 9, 2024 at 8:29 pm
  
  Okay, got my fingers crossed. Sigh. Septuagenarian Technology Deficit, also known as Fat Fingers.
  
  Lay as in she lay on the ground after leaping from a window.
  
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Jim Lally says:

June 9, 2024 at 8:34 am

a very original kink
on the photo

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- Lennart Lundh says:
  
  June 9, 2024 at 8:32 pm
  
  Thanks, Jim. In some ways, an extension of yesterday’s poem.
  
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