they say she’s sick<\/p>\n
cuz she leaves her windows open<\/p>\n
when it’s cold outside-<\/p>\n
curtains blowing in the wind;<\/p>\n
lost her husband and kids all grown-<\/p>\n
they pat my head and say leave her ‘lone<\/p>\n
but she fascinates me with<\/p>\n
her silver blue hair always tied in a bun.<\/p>\n
she told me once she’s come undone<\/p>\n
and she has to nap from one to three just to put her shoes on her feet,<\/p>\n
i have no idea what she means but i smile<\/p>\n
and go back to my house.<\/p>\n
II<\/p>\n
they say she’s crazy<\/p>\n
cuz she piles up trash in cardboard boxes on her porch<\/p>\n
while she swats at flies with a dingy hankie-<\/p>\n
small hands and wrinkled skin,<\/p>\n
she looks so sad so i try to make conversation with her.<\/p>\n
she tells me she’s come undone<\/p>\n
that her whole world is gone and she doesn’t know why<\/p>\n
they left her here.<\/p>\n
i have no idea what she means and i walk back to my house<\/p>\n
wondering if she was happy i even stopped.<\/p>\n
III<\/p>\n
They say she’s lonely<\/p>\n
cuz she talks out loud when no one’s there<\/p>\n
and she rocks for hours as if that is her day’s work.<\/p>\n
in raggedy slippers and her housecoat,<\/p>\n
with arms folded-<\/p>\n
in the middle of winter she sits there with her windows open<\/p>\n
curtains blowing in the wind<\/p>\n
trash piled up in cardboard boxes-<\/p>\n
swatting flies;<\/p>\n
i don’t know why they left me here she yells<\/p>\n
over and over again;<\/p>\n
but now i understand,<\/p>\n
she really has come undone.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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