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The bones were buried years ago/were buried yesterday/were never
really buried and now
we are digging. We are digging everyday,
and someone is sure we’ve dug deeper than the
bones were
buried but the bones are not there.
The drawer is empty. It isn’t
a trick but it isn’t
an accident.
She had a special brush she thought if she brushed
the bones with it and murmured
the quiet prayer then she could
give them the answers she could collect her
paycheck she could
go home.
But the bones were not there, and the brush though she’d
had it in her hand just a moment
ago/just yesterday/ten years
ago it was gone.
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