"It's Time to Find a Place," by Eunice de Souza

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It's Time to Find a Place
by Eunice de Souza

It's time to find a place
to be silent with each other.
I have prattled endlessly
in staff-rooms, corridors, restaurants.
When you're not around
I carry on conversations in my head.
Even this poem
has forty-eight words too many.