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Poetry Sequence
Pheonix
I try to forget
I had a gecko once.
1
Fish
I had a goldfish
Just one–diseased
Probably. I wore all
Black the day
I buried her in
A pill bottle
outside.
2
I tried to save him,
It wasn’t ‘til later
I discovered that if I’d put
Him in cold water,
He may have survived.
Finally Benjamin,
Jess called him Franklin.
A sickly little thing.
He lived two or three
Years, happy and hungry.
He died of a tumor
Or whatever that
spot was.
3
Dog