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54 Huge Rat in Laundry Room written on a post-it stuck to the coffee maker I read it first thing in the morning my son wrote it the night he came home with his dirty clothes dumped them in the laundry room the rat standing in the middle of the floor next to the washer looked up at him when I saw the post-it at 6 am I wondered why he didn’t scream when he saw the rat how did it get in under the cabinets you know they can shrink down to the thickness of paper their bones collapsing like years they can slink in or out of any hole crawl space sealed corner squeeze themselves like toothpaste through a hair fracture in cement I imagine its nose bobbing around my laundry sniffing panties in the dark looking up at my son who came home last night to dump his clothes have a bite to eat sleep in the bed where he became a man ...

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