i want to say i take it all back i want i want to take it back i want it none of it to be ever have happened not when i saw you step over the rope when we went to new york for a week but stayed upstate when you punched me hard in the solar plexus in prague when i looked in your face and saw myself looking back smiling when we went on another trip and another all the trips i want to have stayed home i want to have seen the clouds drifting past my car window to have listened to that sound the bridge makes driving over it without thinking of you always it was you i want i want to be fresh i want to roll out of bed as though it were my first morning in a new state i want nothing more than absolution of sins a negation but there is no way to subtract here i cannot remove this growth that appeared seemingly overnight i cannot cut you away from myself i cannot forget what has already and will always have been i cannot get out of a new bed ever new york will always be as it was when i saw it first with you my breathing will always be labored outside of the cafe i will always see you when i look in a mirror of someone's face the reflection of missed thoughts missed words will cease to give meaning the center will come out of me i will make a new center yes i will drag what is your center around with me and repeat and repeat again i cannot want cannot want want not