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The balloon-like parasites
came out of nowhere
and plucked us, one by one,
off the ground.
Our hands were restrained
by the tendrils that went
in and out of their mouths.
They fed sparingly, attaching
their microscopic probes onto our veins.
As long as we were alive,
we floated with them twenty-feet
from the ground.
The children lasted for two days.
The stronger ones, four days.
The day when I watched
one of my shriveled friends
hit the ground,
it had been raining.
And the earth smelled
like it always did
during a rainy day. |
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