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It's a shame that I don't love you better

 Fateful words emblazoned on your sweater

 Made to move him

 From a distance

Every line to outline your resistance.

Jennifer, why do you have to be so taciturn?

Jennifer, why do you have to be so taciturn?

Fortunately he tries to placate her

Tying notes to broken kitchenalia

The way the ink blots

On the sink stops

Him from carving thoughts into the worktops

Jennifer, why do you have to be so taciturn?

Jennifer, why do you have to be so taciturn?

The knots she ties

 In almost all her clothes

 Are growing greater by the day

Her April showers

 Will have soon devoured

 The alacrity of May.

Jennifer, why do you have to be so taciturn?

Jennifer, why do you have to be so taciturn?

 It was always going to end like this

 It was always going to end like...