on Sunday
we lit birthday candles
none of us could sing
we sang anyway
my grandmother’s candle rests
on the windowsill,
a funeral pyre
where passing thoughts burn
some nights I wonder what would happen
if I turned my steering wheel
slightly to the left
we are all burn victims
we lick cake off the candles
and pretend not to notice the uninvited guest in
the room
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