"  Falling  "

The truth is

that I fall in love

so easily because

it's easy. It happens

a dozen times some days.

I've lived whole lives,

had children,

grown old, and died

in the arms of other women

in no more time

than it takes the 2-train

to get from City Hall

to Brooklyn,

which always brings me

back to you:

the only one

I fall in love with

at least once every day -

not because

there are no other

lovely women in the world,

but because each time,

dying in their arms,

I call your name.

       Phillips, Patrick. boy. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2008, pp 45 - 46.

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