Monday, September 30, 2013

We Disappear

WE DISAPPEAR

“To get as close as she could,
to understand the “gone without
a trace,” for whom the earth
seemed to yawn its beak and
blackened throat and swallow
whole”—Scott Heim, We Disappear
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So I disappeared—
Letting Kansas swallow me
Down there by the tracks

A few years from now—
Nobody will ever know 
I even existed

Pretty soon now I’ll just—
Disappear like most of the
Emporians do

It's a ghost town
Full of disappeared persons and
Soon I'll be one too





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