at any volume


keeping our secret
isn’t difficult.
i could shout it
and no one would believe,
like that time i told a girl
i’d been in a psych ward once.

she laughed it off,
convinced it wasn’t true
- just like the rest of those things
i used to say to get a reaction.

it’s like that with you.
if anyone were to hear the details
of how i swell inside
at the sight or your smile;
how i nearly burst
the first time we touch
after being apart
for just a few days;
they’d think it as likely
as a story
in the scandal rags;

something technically possible,
but not very likely.

by howard

May 18th, 2007

Posted in poetry

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