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de: Tsunami Poems
GHOSTS
The ghosts will need food,
bedsheets, towels,
birthdays celebrated,
children washed, clothed.
They will require white
candles, low-cut wicks,
nothing ostentatious,
a small altar, table
but in the living room,
in a corner to keep
an eye on the children
as they study and dream,
put flesh on their arms,
become young men
and women, get drunk,
fall in love.
The ghosts will
not leave us
to grow up
unattached, alone.
January 17, 2005
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