My pen dries in the outside world.

My pen dries in the outside world.
I cannot dip it in my mother’s ashes
as my father cannot try to plug holes with opiates.
He bites down on his cancer
and is silent.
I finger petty grudges
like lucky pennies
and have nothing to say.

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