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– Note to the stranger six feet away.
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There was never not a bridge from your chest to mine.
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My heartbeat was always the sound
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of your feet walking towards me.
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I can’t believe how many years I lived without knowing
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the air you were breathing out
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was the air I was breathing in.
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Forgive me for not saying thank you
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before our lungs had reason to hide.
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Do you pray more now than you used to?
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I pray all of the time.
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I pray to the big bang, and to the tiny bang,
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and to the bangs we’ll all have to cut ourselves
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so we can see what beauty can only be seen
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from six feet away.
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A giraffe’s neck is six feet long.
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A decade from now,
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will I remember the week I spent wondering
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if I could hug a giraffe’s torso and not get sick
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if the giraffe coughed?
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I don’t want to forget anything about this,
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especially not how it feels to worry
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about everyone I love at the same time.
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So much of the world had been doing that already.
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If every heart-worthy novelist
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weeps for days
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before killing a beloved character off,
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God must have spent centuries sobbing
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before pressing a pen
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to the page of this year.
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