Half-Hearted Sonnet

Kim Addonizio

He'd left his belt. She

followed him and

threw it in the street.

Wine: kisses: snake: end

of their story. Be-

gin again, under-

stand what happened; de-

spite that battered

feeling, it will have been

worth it; better to

have etc…

(—not to have been born

at all— Schopenhauer.)

But, soft! Enter tears.

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