AT LEAST HE DIDN’T SUFFA
Leafy cemetery looks cool shady inviting?
Chiaroscuro coaxing me in Funereal garden goads
I gave up memoir so that my flights of baroque should not
trouble my professors However Tony Soprano died yesterday
Could this be the meaning of the prophesy? You know of those ducks
The ones who landed in his pool He is out of the game now
No longer paralyzed by the fear of death No longer looking over his shoulder
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Summer 2013
DOCTOR HEAL THYSELF
So did you skip out of there? You know
the specialist reprieve? Not really No
The doctor looked at me skeptically when
I said: I don’t take street drugs Ditto for:
Not depressed He must have guessed that
I need street drugs to deal with all that I have seen
What’s your work? ChildPsychotherapy
Oh what kinds of problems? abuse kidnapping trauma death
Then he retracted his skepticism and became morose
Turns out his mother is happy but losing her cognitive abilities
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Summer 2013
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