A ribbon of red decorates the front of your dress,
streaming cranberry sauce
from the corner of your fat uncle's mouth on Thanksgiving.
Running from your chin down to the cold hand across your stomach:
you're a child clutching the string of a helium balloon
that resembles your immensely swollen head.
We could hear the silence from the other end of the house.
It's too late for the drug store.
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