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You Should Have Stayed Home
Felicia Change
You should have known not to enter
a haunted house with people who
do not believe in ghosts they laugh
and joke while you thread lightly
down the hall avoiding mirrors
because you know what you’ll see
They do not sense the lingering dead
don’t feel breathing down their necks
notice the flickering lights or the
creaking floors or the shadows lurking
behind open and closed doors
But you feel them float in the walls
closing in and reaching out wanting you
to join them for your heart to stop and
your bones to break for you to die
and be reborn so you can stay
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