remember
When I Wrote you That note?
your grandpa had just died;
you were destroyed.
you didn't want to see me then.
that's when i knew,
but i still hand-wrote you that note -anyway
in purple ink.
it was an extended list of compliments.
[you could never take a compliment]
"your singing voice and how badly you want to make something with your hands"
"how the first time I …