“Talk about something ending.” He started.<\/p>\n
“That’s broad” I thought.
\nPhone plan
\nMy lease
\nI don’t know… everything ends…<\/p>\n
Buying diapers
\nformula, babyfood
\nsippy cups
\nthose little puffy crackers
\nwith bananas on the tube…<\/p>\n
back to school clothes
\nnew backpack, lunchbox, fresh pencils
\nyellow boxed crayons with the built in sharpener on the back<\/p>\n
Santa stuff!\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Santa stuff…<\/p>\n
acne creams
\nsoapsgelsscrubsmasks video games
\nmore food than you ever thought
\none human could consume
\nnoteworthy tennis shoes<\/p>\n
That first car.<\/p>\n
college tuition
\noff campus housing
\npackages from home of even still more food<\/p>\n
his part: the tux;
\nthe last most food he will ever ask you for.<\/p>\n
“Maybe these are more inevitables
\nthan endings,”
\nI ponder to my empty except me room, “though they do end.”<\/p>\n
She liked pink blankets after he went over, and eating only nonmeals<\/p>\n
non utencil meals<\/p>\n
finger foods<\/p>\n
but not wings. Wings were their thing.
\nEverything was their thing
\nuntil everything ended… inevitably.<\/p>\n
Sixty one years of endings together
\nfive more for her alone.
\nFive more of diapers
\nformulas
\nsippy cups
\nlittle puffy crackers
\nwith fish on the carton<\/p>\n
sophisticated coloring books<\/p>\n
malomars<\/p>\n
Malomarsmalomarsmalomars…<\/p>\n
White Lilies<\/p>\n
That spot right next to him
\nwith the view they chose together.
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