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My Short List is Dwindling

Stephen Sandoval

October 11, 2005

In this capacious city we live in friend,

I believe I have forgotten your face.

I may have even forgotten your laugh I guess.

I have been reminded by gossip and rumors how you are doing.

I hear status reports of your parties and I scratch my head

Thinking why exactly I am experiencing your gatherings secondhand.

You have always been on my short list,

Short list of friends I would choose to hang out with

At large involved or intimate and personal unions.

What pains me is that you tend to forget about me.

You forgot about the two way street of friendship.

I have never wanted to be seen by anyone, but you the person I came to love.