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Hot Tea

read when love ends

By Joe NastaPublished 2 years ago • 1 min read
Hot Tea
Photo by Daphné Be Frenchie on Unsplash

strawberry lemon strawberries lemons

sipping cups of hot tea on a hot day

hot tea hot day hots teas hots days

u know it doesn’t matter, wanting

u wanting language that’s all it was

wanting u wantings us the words

just say them again, strawberry lemon

strawberry strawberry lemon, see

they don’t mean as much

in my mouth my mouths

saying them on a hot day

hot days saying them

strawberry lemon

strawberry straw-

berry lemon sip

sip sips sips sip

the words

since when was saying them out loud enough

nothing is nothing is lemons and wanting

the words yellow & yellow & yellow

i’m not going to say the unsayable

u don’t deserve it & idk how

to say yellow & yellow louder

the seeds on the skin

are enough nothing

since when nothing

in my mouth i say

nothing

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About the Creator

Joe Nasta

literary editor at large, American Poetry’s Sweetest Troublemaker, reputed champion of the underground, kind friend please make me happy :)

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    Written by Joe Nasta