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All Boxed Up

She said it was fine

This business venture would make us

It didn’t.

Not I’m standing here

In a forest of boxes

Where the house is cold

The lights aren’t off be choice

Realizing that

We can only bring a few things

 

Would the sheriff come today?

November 20, 2008?

What would he say?

Nothing?

He’d just hand the notice over

What isn’t clear to me

Is how we get to here

Things were going so well

Trips, eating out, kayaks

 

Back standing in the bedroom

I go through the boxes stored

Way in the back of the closet

Memories of my childhood

Put neatly away

Stacked far from sight, not mind

All boxed up

Wouldn’t it be nice if

The memories were too?

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Written 12-19-09

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