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I Want You (But You're Gone)

Lyrics of apostrophic address to the missing.

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The Friend
Sep 20, 2023
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In the Same Space
by C.P. Cavafy

translated by Edmund Keeley

The setting of houses, cafés, the neighborhood
that I’ve seen and walked through years on end:

I created you while I was happy, while I was sad,
with so many incidents, so many details.

And, for me, the whole of you has been transformed into feeling.

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