- Keith Banner
The Sadness that Makes You Feel the Sadness
when she died
it was weird
how much it took out of me
hell
i did not even know her
but it was like
everything was gone
that is what
"weird"
kind of means
right? everything gone
and her voice
a shrill bird cry from
inside a closet filled
with
too many dresses
dresses
you can't really wear
now
dresses that are
more like addresses
places
you lived in
you remember
only after
someone else dies
she was
the
last vestige
of what it means
to be
alone
and crying
in a trailer
she was the trailer and the
mountains and
the diet coke
she was
what you believe in when you
stop
believing and you
just hear the
radio
plaintive
and fixed on the sadness
that makes you
feel the sadness

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