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Summer Jacket

The jacket kept your head dry

And hid the tears from view

While traces of light

Across the night sky

Lept into action

And passers-by formed rapid judgements

About books and covers

The jacket hid your elegant

clothing behind its dusty, torn blackness

You preferred it to baring

your personality full force

and liked that it combined

Us two in one covering

Your dress my jacket

The jacket held your scent

long after you'd gone

The jacket stopped the window frame

From scratching the book's body

As it maintained the opening

As I knelt smoking

And catching the summer breeze

Rolling off the Tay

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