This End Up
Moving means “This End Up”
Moving means saying goodbye to dust
A house is always so much uglier on the way out.
On the way in the end was up,
they were happy, hopeful, the marriage was so new.
The carpet, once bone colored, fresh-
now is ash grey.
Stains of arguments leave cigarette burns where they stood
and cursed.
Moving time and memories are crammed into separate boxes.
What parts of their marriage will be donated?
Or thrown away?
He weeps one last time as they pass in the bathroom,
a dispassionate changing of the guards as they take turns for the shower.
He weeps.
“It’s been such a long time since we were naked together.”
Moving means “This End Up”
Our fragile boxes must be handled with care.
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