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The Mandarin (Free verse) by Caducus A half peeled mandarin brought it home to me
She had left me.
It laid next to the ring I gave her
And five years of notes I wrote her,
The kind only women keep.
I walked upstairs noticing the vacuum cleaner
Still warm from principal
And in the bedroom laid where she woke
Were 13 photo frames
Face down like the way she liked to be fucked,
She left only one of me standing.
In the picture I was being held by my Father
On a beach I donât recall
But I never forgot that image,
It comes to me when Iâm loving
Yet never when I fuck
And I smell mandarins whenever Iâm alone
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