Anniversary of an Anniversary

the sequence of
events
can be read
over and over,
but it doesn't re-write
the past and these
mistakes are
unerasable.
so this pathetic year old prose
is proof that it's
time for a change,
a rearrangement.

and it all adds up
to mediocre
words,
pieces of my affections
scribbled out on
crumpled scraps.
this won't be the
end of me,
but it does mean
good-bye to you.


*and so this ends
a decade under the influence*