I'm sorry I never spoke to you on the steps.
I saw you pass by every day.
Sometimes you floated right past me
as I was coming down.
I kept hoping you'd notice me in the invisible cloak.
I remember when you came home running with
the $20 bill in your pocket,
and I knew it wasn't real. I should have told you.
I wish we could have listened together
to the songs ringing through your Walkman.
I should have whispered through the whirling
vortices of trash as wind whipped off the river.
I knew you'd make it out. But you still needed—
Needed, nee—
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