How can you go from knowing someone so well?

To not knowing them at all. Welcome to the rest of your life.

I have nothing to say

except everything, everything is changing.

I wish I could make

everyone's heartache go away.

When a man

loves a woman.

I love you, Mr. Brautigan

"The Past Cannot Be Returned"
The umbilical cord
cannot be refastened
and life flow through it
     again. 

Our tears never totally
     dry. 

Our first kiss is now a ghost,
haunting our mouths as they
     fade toward
     oblivion. 

                    Tokyo
                    June 19, 1976
                    with a few words
                    added in Montana
                    July 12, 1976 

I keep touching a long coarse hair on my face.

Yes, girls have those.

A stranger told me that I had a nice hat

and to be careful riding home. Sometimes I really like people.