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by Courtney Shay

Last Words to a Fourteen Year Old Puppy

Childhood friend,
your struggle to breathe
makes me suffocate
because I know you

the way you used to understand me
when I tripped to the ground
and you ran to me and kissed my dirty face
until I had trouble breathing through the laughter

and now I whisper into your ear
things you can't hear or understand
stroke your face while you inhale breaths deeply
as in sleep, though you are awake

low and rasped
as though your soul
if you have one
is escaping you

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