Nine years and the house still creaksin the same two boards.I have stopped calling it settling.It is just where the weight goes.
I used to think a quiet housewas an accusation.Now it is just quiet.The difference took nine yearsand I am not going to pretendit took anything less.
The poet asked for: Is "the difference took nine years" earning its own line, or telling you what the poem already showed?
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