ISRAEL

gut22@post.tau.ac.il

http://geocities.com/alkalay_gut

soap opera

You probably
aren’t aware of this

but I have a twin –

She’s the one
who writes the poems

and passes them off
as mine.

When we were young
I’d try

to reason with her,
make her behave

like you
and me,

but she’d sneak out at night, and write
vicious things.

Mornings sometimes
I’d find the evidence

on the floor between our beds

I’d hide them before
Mom discovered them

But it would be too late
to put them back. Too late

to pretend
they didn’t exist

too late to negate
the terrible devastation.

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