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Should Have Been My Last Mistake
My life fans and spreads outward
your absence creating an old woman of me
what was once contained tightly
becomes loose and amorphous
careless and gelatinous
leaking into other channels
to embarrass those around me
with the evidence of my decline
I burned your letter in the fireplace
so I could inhale you into my lungs
rich, acrid, stinging pain
that brought tears to my...