Close your eyes, and listen to the songs
You loved 10, 20, or 40 years ago—
or maybe in a past life.
Touch their timeless echoes in your memories,
like the primary-colored blocks in your hands
when you were six years old and you watched
Him cross the street.
So many stories below, he was as tiny
as your hombrecitos.
You'll need to cross that taut tragic tightrope
more than once.
But close your eyes long enough
to see the melodies and words dance
like wet paintbrushes across the dark.
Revisit, rewind, rewind.
Why can't I rewind and stop looking
Off the concrete terrace?
I forgot to close your eyes.
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