i never cry, but your poem made me cry

joe's poems make me almost cry,
but the tears never actually fall
like the giant los angeles rain drops
that hit my car on the way to work yesterday.

i do cry sometimes.
i just don't usually let people
see me cry.
it's private, you know.

i think you saw my tears once.
it was the night that i threw a bottle
at the ceiling, ripped up old photos,
and crushed the last dead rose.