Miss Garland Died on her Commode

Perhaps she weakly 

reached behind to flush –

and if she did,

from where she sat 

(and where they later 

found her tiny body dead),

and in that silvery plash

of cataract beneath

her little bum,

I wonder if she faintly 

heard not “I’ll Get By,”

but “Frances Gumm.”

Might have been

what made her –

let her – go.

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