if i slipped
this note i have written
under my door
one of my neighbors
would find it
and read it
they would' walk down
the hallway
to their apartment
reading it aloud
and my other neighbors
sitting in their apartments
would hear this person
walking down the hall
reading these questions
from the paper
asking where are you
where have you gone
saying i can still smell you
but even that
is fading away
why can't i leave
where have you gone
and the people in their apartments
listening wouldn't know
that it was all coming
from a note
from their neighbor
they would listen to this person
walking down the hall
asking someone else's questions
and they would answer them
silently to themselves
thinking of who is out there
that is asking them those questions
going back over
who they have ever left behind
without being able to explain
why they were leaving
they would sit there
in their apartments
wondering who could find them.
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