Why I Will Miss You

for M.V.

Because:
In my guts is a tin can
and a string runs from it
out my belly button
around the corner
down the street
through a window
to a bed
where you sit
with a tin can in your guts.
When you laugh
the string is pulled taut
and vibrates in my blood.

copyright 2007 Allison Shoemaker
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