This is another list poem: What Takes Longer Than Thirty Minutes

Drinking American black coffee.
the rain to stop.
to forget gravity and its new strength.
memorizing words.
listing apologies and the reasons
for not saying them.
enough time to hold broken pieces
kept stacked like scrap
pottery until I found they were really
bits of unlined paper
blown easily in the trail
of trains planes and automobiles.

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