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For today's prompt, write a second thoughts poem. You could have second thoughts about something you've done or thought in the past. You could write about someone (or something) else having second thoughts. Or you could even take a poem you wrote earlier in the month and flip it in a new direction.


Or Not

I could take him back.
Him, meaning ________
with ________ meaning
any of them.

I could get married.
I could learn to sew and visit his kids in the rental
or prison or bring plastic chairs for the porch
and share pictures of the rescue cat.
I could prepare taxes and vote Republican
I could arrive to the airport four hours early.
I could cook steaks and macaroni salad.
I could talk and talk and talk
on the phone, by the curb, anywhere
to anyone, for hours.

I could be just be there.
I could look out windows
like a wife.
A lot.

I could wait for him to come home
Or wait for him to leave.

I could take him back.
Him, meaning ________
with ________ meaning
any of them.

I could still have somebody else's life.