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"Possible Companion"

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"The mockingbird stayed for
months in the ligustrum, blips,

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and screams--

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I couldn't get a thing done.

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And though I know
control is an illusion,

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I'd go outside and talk to it
in the sort of shallow sun.

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Week after week of
helping it along

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in the powdery white
tree, like helping

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the new kid in seventh grade,
that awkward mix of sympathy

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and greed that always rises
from the deepest place,

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and I thought I could
help my dead friend, too,

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though her new dead
voice was terribly full.

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But I feared I was controlling
her even in heaven,

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but her voice had had to be
stopped for me to speak at all.

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The death did not subtract.

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It added something.

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Her death made me whole."

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