Legatee

Before we get

to the particulars

of the estate –

to ascertain

the moral weight

of its requirements

and of the blunt

materiality of its

avoir-du-pois

and other exigencies

of what your provider

en français refers to

as dependent on ”la loi

du roi”, there’s a sacred

question to be asked

you as inheritor, which

if incorrectly answered,

means you’ll lose

all rights and interest

in and to the will.

Don’t fret, sit still.

It will all be over soon.

Look out the window

at the moon.

What do you see?

(I’d seen the face

of my provider.

Hadn’t he?)

Oui. (How could

he not agree?)

You are

the legatee.

(Apparently

the moon

belongs 

to me.)

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