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and i am nothingNovember 2004 i drink my coffee black and i can almost wrap my fingers around my wrist completely because there are 35 caloriesand i am nothing
in half an apple half a cup of broth 11 pretzel sticks, twice my size
January 2005 i quietly spit my birthday cake into a napkin and hope you won't think i'm ungrateful
April
when you begin to worry and make me breakfast before school the way you used to do before grandma died i am 95 pounds
May by the time you find it two weeks later
hidden under my bed molding and stinking with rancid butter


pieces of christmasi.pieces of christmas
I wrote all my secrets on the inside of the wrapping paper before I wrapped each present because I know no one will save the paper anyway.
ii. When I baked sugar cookies, i scrawled my biggest fears into the flour before i rolled out the dough. And each snowman knows what I am most afraid of, but everyone goes for their heads first thing.
iii. I left pieces of myself wrapped in tissue paper at the bottom of the gift bags because no one ever digs down that far if the present is right on top.
iv. For your gift this year, I bought you a jigsaw puzzle and threw away the corn
skull
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