The So What
She returned from the Kitchens
Ten hours work,
and found that her position
greatly changed from this morning
ten hours gone.
And she began her mourning,
not for him in his going,
run off gone,
but for the lost things knowing
she wouldn’t find the picture frame,
carried off
by thieves with no care or name.
She gathered the few she found,
Memories,
Scattered about on the ground
And wandered.

Gloom 99

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