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without water

John Sweet

And she is beautiful in her moment of
dying, and the word is salvation, but the
dogs aren’t buying it. Their world is flat,
their mouths are empty, and the ambulances
have nowhere to go. Are always arriving
too late to save the burning child. Six years
old and laughing in an empty house, end
of October, and the man on the sidewalk
starts to run when the cop approaches him.
The girl is fourteen, but says she wasn’t
raped. Says she loves him, and at three in
the afternoon I am sitting at a cluttered
table, am missing you, and you are two
hours away, are at your husband’s side,
and what none of us talk about anymore
is the war. What we refuse to give up is
our belief in happy endings. Our addictions
to the ghosts of gods. Our failure

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