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What Living Costs

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Free verse · Hope

I used to measure the day by what it took from me.Now I measure it by what I let it keep.

Is that living, or just better accounting?I don't know yet. I only knowthe first way ran out, the way a houseruns out of rooms nobody airs.

So I open one. That's all today was.One window. One room. I called it enoughbecause the alternative was calling it nothing,and I am done doing that math.

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