Timothy Liu
Ode to Barack
When I knew
he wasn’t coming
back, I didn’t
wash the sheets
for over
a year, his scent
mixed with mine
until that too
became so faint
it retreated
into memory
like everything
else I had
to let go of
as I stripped
our mattress
to make room
for whomever
else might
want to
fuck me harder.
Timothy Liu‘s latest book of poems is Don’t Go Back To Sleep (Saturnalia Books, 2014). He lives in Manhattan and Woodstock, NY. Visit timothyliu.net.
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