Today's poem is by John W. Evans

Fight
       

Pick up, I said, and talk to me, you said, come
home and talk to me, I said, not until we can talk, you said,
what, I said, like fucking human beings, you said, I won't talk
to you, I said, until you come home, you said, I won't call back,
I said, then don't, you said, I can't come home until
we talk, you said, who does this, I said, talk to me, I
said, no one does this, you said, someone is doing it, you said,
right now, you said, people don't, you said, act like this, I said, I'm
trying to talk to you, I said, just come home, I
said, can't we talk, you said, come home
first, I said, I left home, you said, so we can talk,
you said, no one talks, you said, not like this, I said, just
talk to me, I said, I am, I said, talking to you, you
said, what did I just say, I said, it matters how you say it,
you said, this is how I said it, I said, pick up, you said, come home.

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