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Free Verse · Love

Across the Table

by The QuillOak Editors

You across the table,

sleeves rolled, telling me the story

of your day like it's an epic —

and to me, it is.

Kingdoms have fallen, love,

for less than how you look right now,

reaching for the check

you'll never let me pay.

Original poem © QuillOak — free for personal use.

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