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imagined grace

John Sweet

weeds and garbage and barbed-wire fences,
nothing to keep in but poison,
no one to keep out but the dead and the dying
and so why do you stay?

where else would you go?

listen

piles of books gathering dust
in a curtained room

pale winter sunlight on the cemetery

follow the road that cuts behind it and
sink up to your knees in the muck at the river’s edge

consider all of the bitterness
your father left you

try to remember the last words
you ever said to him

pretend that they meant something
more than they actually did

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