DETECTIVE NOIR

It was dark after midnight and in the distance the dogs were barking loudly
Outside in the cold where his car was parked in front of your
Apartment building on Manning,
And I thought about how much you loved me, words now left
And uneasily spoken beneath the dim streetlights and the windows
Downtown where at about one a.m. all yours went out.
And he, got into his sports car and left around seven,
Looked right at me, straight through me, never knowing how close death
Was in the mourning of everything lost.
So I lit up another cigarette and walked home
just as the rain was beginning to fall....

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