What You Can and Can't Put Into Boxes

what u can and cant put in boxes
March 21 2006 at 9:24 AM sespy one


i packed up all your boxes

random things your grandma gave
to us

and my dad scrubbed the syrup off the floor

we left
with you contained
in brown boxes
and only a hopeful half of me
in the picture frame

boxes of crap we never needed
u took away

left me with everything
but a reason

angry messages

and little samples of your childish handwriting
i could never throw away

envelopes addressed
to a haunting street i hate to pass

we once played hockey monopoly on the porch but now
its
empty