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you say

but we don’t have

a doorbell

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in the inside out

pockets of your jeans

broken notes

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the pumpkin

its jagged smile

we trick ourselves

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the pumpkin

breaks

the knife

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at the counter

the way people say

their birth date

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along the roof

of the chicken coop

tiny shards of ice

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she says

prunes are

already old

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pumpkin patch

someone asks

what’s a gourd?

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the tools

receive

the bad news

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no one

else carves

the pumpkin

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