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Chalk Dust

E. J. Loera

Promise me you aren’t chalk dust
That my attempting to erase you
will not mean that you have
disappeared until the end of time –
I only need to be rid of you
because my stomach still drops
like skipping a stone in a stream
every time you are mentioned.
“You were like an invisible friend,” you said
but don’t realize that all the same
I am an imaginary friend to myself
and my invisible friend
moved away when I was six.
After a time,
there is nowhere to run
and the damage has been done –
my tongue stumbles on silence.
There is no promised land
in these spiraling tunnels
of reuptake inhibitors –
only a long waiting room
with alligators and the
stillness of my right eardrum.

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