Studio Apartment
by Dion Kempthorne
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The mockingbird
hatched from its shell
like that raincoat
you got with the pill
sealed up tight in
its tiny plastic packet
for a rainy day will
never again fit into
a space so tidy
as your brooding
before the storm
before your wings
got in the way.
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