The porcelain doll with a baby's body
is a fallen angel of mediocrity
It watches your living room
become a catalog of heirlooms
An old oak shelf that holds its own low weight
in dust is the doll's comatose resting place
It cracks along a creeping fault
A black and white portrait of a slick-haired boy
wearing a dark and light striped shirt
shows him looking slightly up and away
and what are you holding on to?
What are you holding on to?
Nothing
Your backbone bends and shows the grandchildren
a physics demonstration of time and gravity
They watch you lower your knife
against the hooded thief of late life
Your world war hero fell and died decades ago
from an uncertain gun's blessed blow
His guts ran out and you ran away
from the reality of growing old alone
You swear you've seen a swarm of angels
dropping special invitations from above
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