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