"What is held in common is always in danger.
Between us is this link.
End up abandoned at some crossroad,
a ghostly pet no longer wanted.
Yet it returns as if heaped with unspoken curses, a sly beating
for a scapegoat.
Yet it revives.
This poor kin we thought we could disavow,
since it is neither yours nor mine,
merely ours, til death does its part.