voice | poetry
-By Shannon Laws
There’s a pebble in my boot named “That Night”
A callus has formed around it
I’ll never find a pearl in my sock
That time
the time I failed
That one time
that night
the night nothing worked
and you died
How sorry I am
Both legs limp
You could be 25 today
I could be walking straight
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