5
when we finally got a place to stay
its best view was a graveyard
each morning we could take a peek
at our anxiety buried
so close to our window
ten more steps at night or by dawn
we could have been rubbing shoulders
with ghosts
but ghosts have no interest
with a destitute there is nothing to gain or lose
better to stay silent least this destitute ask us for food
i could hear them whisper
except this one time
a ghost was really hungry like us
because we gave him thought
he showed up in our dream
just sitting there playing dead
he lingered for a bit
then never returned after that night
one has to wonder what kind
of hunger would make a dead thing
back out forever;
madness, cynicism,
indifference of soul,
what a waste of one's misfortune
to be seen like that after death.
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