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Florentina Loredana Dalian (Romania)

Lights Out 

I watch myself like watching TV

black and white

I see people fleeting through my life

leaving me without turning their heads back. 

Right so my dear ones, hurry up,

rush to the end of the world!

Where the dickens are you all going

and how far off this heart you think you’ll make it?

Make sure you won’t forget the hat,

the gloves, the vices, the umbrella…

and without fail wrap two comforters around your neck!

You, the bundled up ones!

You, the tinseled ones!

if you’re going away for good, make it happen faster, more credible, more… irreversible!

Tear off more dashingly with the red hot pincers

everything due to you

take away the corner of your own heart!

Close the gate!

Slam shut it loudly, confidently. 

If you’re going away for good, make it happen soundly and irrevocably

don’t leave behind corny regrets, longings, promises 

of seeing each other again when pigs fly, 

take your life small change from the pockets, and good riddance! 

What’s the matter with you? Why are you faltering?

Hurry up, the lights go out

over second hand feelings. 

Who needs your halves of love,

your halves of betrayal?

Beat it, when I say!

I still linger on in this tedious November 

to count your heavy footfalls on the heart.

Do not write to me!

All the words of mankind are worthless 

than a single departure.