Dear sons and daughters of hungry ghosts
        After the song by Wolf Parade

My best advice
is learn to cook.
That way you can feed
whoever wanders
into the kitchen

I started with ground venison
when Mom got sick —
oil in cast iron, onion, chopped.
Clipped recipes from the paper.

A useful child is one who works,
or so my father taught me.
I suppose it is the same
with ghosts — not knowing
what their world is like.

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from What Is in the Blood
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