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No Reason to Leave Elburn

Richard King Perkins II

I met Andie a time or two at his dad’s shop.
Angular, thin,
too sweet for his own good.
When Andie was in fifth or sixth grade,
his dad moved the family
twenty miles away
so that Andie could start fresh.
The father, Jim, told me that his son
wasn’t being bullied nearly as much
in the new town.

A few days before high school graduation,
Andie went out walking
through fields of reclaimed prairie.
He waited patiently, weaving bracelets
of wildflowers, watching ants
build their tiny volcanoes
of dirt and sand.
His patience rewarded, Andie stepped
onto the tracks
and waved goodbye to the engineer.

Jim kept his family in the same town.
There was no place in the world left to go.

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