I Might As Well Have Been Asking The Moon
by Alan Birkelbach



"Where were you last night?"
___I asked,
____but you simply smiled
____and said, "Up too late."

____You did not even seem
____mortified
____there were clouds
______across your face,

____or that there was no longer
______an icy halo
____around
______your glowing head.





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