She had so
many geese
that she
would hide her sorrows inside pillows
made of
geese feathers
if she was
sad,
but she
wasn’t,
and she
bought ticket to a ship
to sail to Paraguay
to hunt
more geese by the sea
- but there’s no sea in Paraguay,
her friend
said, and she said,
you’re
spoiling my dreams,
and she became
really sad,
and she tore the pillows,
and the feathers flew away,
and they
had to carry her
to the
cemetery for a semester,
and to
loose weight, and more hair,
and to die,
eventually .
And the
rains started to fall
for months,
as if to sympathize her loss of hair
which was
golden by the way,
or to synchronize
the story
or
symbolize something bigger,
or
apologize on behalf of her unthoughtful friend,
or to help
the birch grow,
to produce
birch sugar to give her comfort,
or more
shares to the shareholders of the birch sugar company,
and the sea
grew
until it
was in Paraguay.
But the
ticket to the ship, they said,
was already
expired.