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They chose a room with nothing on the walls
Except a clock that ran two minutes fast.
Someone had labelled all the cable boxes.
Someone else kept looking through the glass.
The coffee tasted like the paper cup.
My coat was hanging from a plastic chair.
You said the change was only practical.
I nodded like I hadn’t brought myself in there.
No slammed door.
No shattered frame.
Just careful voices
Avoiding my name.
You called it nothing personal
Because everybody signed the page.
I watched my name become the past tense
Before I reached the stairs.
You called it nothing personal,
Clean hands, clean break, clean air.
Funny how an ordinary sentence
Can follow someone everywhere.
I kept the dead keycard in my wallet
Three winters longer than it worked.
Not out of hope. It opened nothing.
I just forgot which pocket hurt.
There’s someone standing where my amplifier stood,
Playing cleaner than I ever did.
I mean that as a compliment.
Mostly.
Let the record show I’m being good about it.
No court case.
No final scene.
Just tape marks
Where the cabinet had been.
You called it nothing personal
Because nobody raised a hand.
I watched my name become a footnote
While I was still inside the band.
You called it nothing personal,
Like weather passing through.
Maybe it was nothing to the room.
The room was everything I knew.
I know nobody meant to ruin me.
That would have required a plan.
Don’t call it harmless
Just because you did it calmly.
Call it nothing personal.
File it wherever you need.
I carried the wording home with me.
It fit like somebody else’s sleeves.
Call it nothing personal.
I won’t ask you to change the line.
You had a word for what happened.
I had to live inside mine.