In the unfamiliar photograph
buried in your brittle Samsonite briefcase,
my grandfather wears his hair slicked back like Chairman Mao’s
while my grandmother wears her face lined with disdain.
I’m guessing they’re probably the same age I once was
when death was just an inconvenient truth
brushed away as easily as an unexpected fragment of spider’s web.
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