all convalescent on the noontide  crept blithely past the moor  you couldn't say i haven't survived  but I'm arguably not alive anymore   and here the focal point the address says  return to me, i miss you still  and i laugh i wrench i'm guilty  if the hill don't die on me then i will   coarsely i size the defect  hoarsely i voice concern  perversely i still affect  to never leave to never return   it's an animated skeleton  sunk cheek long week to bear  and the days fell apart like a newspaper  full of rain so untamed so delicate   and you clasped your hands together  a well maintained insulated purse  and i thought 'i hope this don't last forever'  and i said 'who knew grief could be so well rehearsed'   and the silver headed one engaged like a telephone  asked how i was, wished i were worse  and then returned to his replacement for filing  mixers sipped astringent and liquor glugged terse   and I took a train at the end of it all  several ...