from birth.
the pounds and ounces,
the length of us.
the time delivered.
then ages
are added up.
we are marked in height
against the doorway.
we count the years
alive,
the years in school.
the years married.
the kids,
divorces
are measured too.
even the pets get numbered.
how long
we've lived where we do.
and in the end,
there's a number
on everything,
then
after all the tabulations
are completed
they engrave
the years of your existence
upon the tomb.
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