Brice Randall Bickford on the caesura of paying attention

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You can never let up
Paying attention
If you expect to go on feeling
So you could not be any less
Surprised how poorly
You recall the way back
And forth
You used to swing
Too proud to settle on anything
So you always fell
For the hardest working woman you knew
Thinking somehow she could steady you
Yes it was a burden to have to live
So figurative
Shifting the weight of your body
From that lover to this
With the feeling that you missed
You can never catch yourself
Up anyhow
Without paying
Attention to the way you are not
You are not staggering now

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