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the fruit flies | Meena Puram (11)

what a privilege to feel guilty. 


to walk down a suburban sidewalk while crying about 

all the ways you failed to love me 


& everything i still don’t understand. 


to sit in a room 

surrounded by things that are supposedly mine. 


the illusion that i ever owned anything stings 

like the naive belief that you ever belonged to me. 


in this place that i’ve imagined to be my home, 

i found your soul replaced by the fruit flies. 


of course, they too went hungry and found another place to stay, wherever that may be.

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