The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Reacquaint by Allison Thung

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Singular

Say We,
while offering no
                further context.

Tell me—
                We went on a vacation
                                We adopted a cat
                                                We bought a house—
and make no
clarification on who
                We comprises.

For I live vicarious—
revelling in your
                contentment of
                                being part of an
                                                unquestionable unit;
and
                feeling such safety
                                in another you would
                refer to the self in
                                the plural without
                                                fear of losing the
singular.

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