The Version Of Me They Kept

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I pulled in past the water tower, same rust, same crooked font,

and the man at the pump said my old name like it was what I want.

Ten years. Ten years of showing up and doing the boring part,

the six a.m., the borrowed van, apologies I had to start

from nothing, with no script, with my hands shaking on the phone.

But a town like this keeps a highlight reel and it don't cut the tone.

They still run the version where I'm seventeen and out of shape