BAGGAGE
i packed up my mother my brother +bits of father
glasses lipstick (morange) pinecones brother now
a tree (don’t ask) strands of beautiful white hair
the gown she died in blueflannel still damp shoulda
kept the leopardskin one but her leopardprint chic lives
on we all donned a piece for the deathvigil
me the boys +Lovey proudly 15 hrs of breathing cacophony
nurses +staff likely thought us daft fuck em they didn’t
even know she was in her deaththroes !
oh it’s just some medicine for her dear medicine my asssss
step away from my mother crassss Ratchet dignity was key
also for Lee+Marty
she slept sweetly to jazz tunes blue lilacs +more her (their)
possessions possess me sewn invisibly into the fabric of me
scrimshaw knife star of David Joseph bejewelled bluebird
can they all come back now please? a still alive brother said: ape if
they come back you’ll only have to lose em all over again fuckdeath
i saw that on a souvenir mug in a hipster store (where else?!)
almost bought it for mother it would have terrified her you don’t
mess around with the Reaper dear until you do
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..the one who remains is half ghost..
Rickie Lee Jones Last Chance Texaco 2021
Spring 2023 ..with her today.. born Easter Sunday 1957 ..resurrection time..
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