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Nothing I ever wrote could be made to
speak
like this.

The predictable quiet
rot-out of an old lady
left alone.

Dying.

Her yellow-grey panties
sitting, insignificant
on some nursing home
clothesline.

And I need some quick
re-analysis of loss, some
easy assigning of
numbers to decay.

There shouldn’t be a word
like talent when
such people get
dragged down
like this.

Off-nights are for accepting
that every few years the
rebels and
standard-bearers switch.
And from a wide enough angle
all us
artists and
poets aren’t important,
we’re just ridiculous
kids.

Amen,
           I think.