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Something's gone wrong (Pimple) by zodiac
A half-empty glass of water sits
on your bedside table, among
tissues and brown bottles. A wrong
number getting me up late, it hits
me suddenly about the glass and undoes
a nightâs good sleep: yeah, somethingâs amiss
here; somethingâs definitely gone wrong.
And itâs
a long night coming; solitary cars buzz
by outside on the highway, and the hiss
and catch and hiss of your breathing like an old song
goes: somethingâs wrong, wrong.
If I were young
enough to shake you awake, call it quits,
step out of the house into the throng-
ing dark, I know I couldnât because
what's wrong - I am. So I kiss
your damp hair thinking you'll wake late from this
dead sleep, and maybe tell me what it was
about me I ought to have noticed all along.
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