Saturday, September 2, 2017

Just Ahead of Dead



Because right now an evil cold
is eagerly beleaguering my limbs,
I find I do not have the wherewithal

to spout my tortured existential hymns
be-spiked with little coda jokes:
the very notion of them chokes.

But evidently I’ve
the wherewithal
to draw a head

or two, about which
surely you’ll agree
that in this dank condition of Undo,

it may be best
to leave the rest unsaid.
I’ll try to let you know if this results

unalterably in Goodbye: “Guy is dead”
(a Facebook memo) now awaits
the faintest pressure of a fingertip

to whoosh to you before I feel my final
breath about to fly. Life is not so bad,
it turns out, even if you don’t know why.



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