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When someone dies, the house they occupied
becomes so strangely like the animals
we'd model from papier-mache.
Each animal held a balloon inside
upon which children slathered pasted strips
of paper then would decorate
that slather till the moment that
we popped and tugged the now useless balloon.
Its shape remained but it was gone
except that the departure shaped
a ghostly form that stood as though it had
a core -- but didn't -- and now never could.
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