i breathed my breaths
separately
and didn’t invest a dream
in her.
she would call me best-friend
and i invented a kind of
stillness for the head, not to show
disapproval
but between the oranges
forced into the repressed hunger of my hand,
the laments about sleepiness,
and the promises to hang out
phrased in conditional mood-
it still stung a bit
when, fresh out of her needs,
she evaporated.
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Dec. 12, 2008
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The title alone gave me the giggles. When I got married the pastor said "even when you fought, you loved. When she was right and you were wrong, or she was wrong and you kept your mouth shut like a good man" lol. Anyway, the poem here is very succinct and you say what, I think, you meant to say without over extending or carrying on, which we poets have a tendency to do. I so love brevity in poetry, and this is a perfect example of how to do it well
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This is a beautifully detailed portrait poem
I really like the way that you just dive in for better or worse and then make it as honest as you can I have so manny "friends" like that - I know a little of how you feel 
I will never evaporate 
Polly
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ah... I've known a few like this. Ironically, they are almost always named 'Michelle'. Go figure, right?
At least you recognize the flaw in the friendship, it is worse when we don't.
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I have issues with a gal named Michelle toooo 
Yeah, I think you're right. I don't suffer as much when I don't invest in a friendship, and I don't until I'm quite sure how things are. But it's never a pleasant experience...
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I was just talking with a friend about how this happened to me seveal years ago. Losing this particular friend hurt a lot because we were very close, and she betrayed me, trying to seduce my husband (long story). Even though before she stripped naked in front of my husband, her personality had changed in ways that made me very uncomfortable. I am sorry that your friend evaporated, or maybe she should be sorry that she lost such a considerate friend.
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Thank you
Yeah... well, with me it's different, because I let people in very hard and everyone is trying to change that about me saying it's not healthy etc. It did hurt a bit, but I never considered this girl a friend though many would have said we were friends... One situation in which I wish I had been proven wrong.
Woah, yours sounds like a very rude friend Sorry you went through that.
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Thanks. It took a while to get over, but I tried to learn from the situation what I could and move on.
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