.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Left it all behind there.<\/p>\n
All that sand from my shoes.\u00a0 All shaken off.<\/p>\n
All that salt from my hair.\u00a0 From my eyes, too.<\/p>\n
Nothing stuck as I shouted it all away.<\/p>\n
Yelled at it, but quietly, you know, inside.<\/p>\n
Sounded like nothing worked.\u00a0 Nothing did.<\/p>\n
It died unassisted.\u00a0 After all I did to revive it.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Even the pain went away by itself.\u00a0 Overnight.<\/p>\n
No longer mine.\u00a0 We disowned each other.<\/p>\n
It used to embrace me, it was my old mother.<\/p>\n
It was a warm facelessness, a punched cushion.<\/p>\n
I didn’t have to make it up.\u00a0 Scattered feathers.<\/p>\n
I have proof.\u00a0 I told everybody so.<\/p>\n
Everyone could see how well I carried it.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Left it all behind there.<\/p>\n
Half my life gone.\u00a0 Strands of moaning rain.<\/p>\n
I had gotten so used to it, the ordinariness of it.<\/p>\n
The cold familiar arbitrariness of it.<\/p>\n
I used to make coloured screen shots of it.<\/p>\n
Long rectangles and graphs of explanatory text.<\/p>\n
Now that it has flatlined, I wonder if I\u2019ll miss it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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