Excerpt from "My Dead Friends Come Back"

If you want to
come back, just you
I say it’s fine

From your hijacked brain

From your skeleton
sparkling like change
on a countertop

Your life as light is just beginning in the cosmos, but you can come
back if you want to

What a terrible place this is

Limping around
not in each other’s arms
not like light
at all

End of the West, The


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