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What I Meant to Say

Mara Okonkwo

Free verse · Love

I practiced the word in the car.I practiced it in the mirror.By the time I got to youI only had the plain one left:

stay.

Not the fireworks version.Not the version with the violins.Just the one wordthat was ever actually true.

stay.stay.I said it twicein case the first one sounded like a question.

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