What If We Came in a Cardboard Box


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(poetry) by lostcauser (1.5 hr) Rep: 8 ( +9 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Fri Aug 05 2022 at 13:44:08

What if we came in pieces and parts

in plastic bags

with a small tube of glue

what if we were left on the doorstep

lit like a fuse

crackling

burning

what if we came

in at the middle

stayed to the end and came back for the start

what if we came like a ransom note

with a map and a warning

what if we came like an afternoon storm

what if we came fully formed like a colt

wet and warm

what if we came through the wall

like a ghost

or what if we came like a fish to the surface

what if we came like a bubble and popped

what if we came in pieces and parts

and no one came to put us together

what if we came in a cardboard box

what if no one

opened us up.

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