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THE BLUE CARPET<br />

AND THE CHERRY PIE<br />

Jazmin Garcia<br />

The cozy cozy room<br />

paintings on the wall<br />

black and white photos<br />

that familiar blue carpet<br />

gone.<br />

A vibrant blue<br />

existing in the shadow of maggots<br />

numerous and thriving<br />

the blue had ceased to live,<br />

but no one knows when.<br />

Death’s foul room<br />

feeding off sorrow<br />

stealing the blue off the carpet<br />

damaging everything<br />

except -<br />

-the cherry pie in the kitchen<br />

untouched, undisturbed, eternal<br />

so picturesque<br />

even if touched by death’s breath<br />

unchanging, even as the blue decayed.<br />

A glimmer of hope<br />

or dark reminder<br />

so, it joined the blue carpet<br />

similar fates<br />

never to be seen again.<br />

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