Wishful Thinking

Don't hold your breath.

“I wish you’d have dinner with me,” she said.
And I thought,

If we’re wishing for things,
I wish you’d watched your mouth
and kept your hands to yourself.

I wish you’d tried
at all.

I wish I’d had a better mother,
a different mother.

Anyone
but you.

So, we all wish for things,
sometimes.

Don’t we?

And we don’t always get
what we want.

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