NaPo #20: To the Dying

To the Dying

You could consider generously staying.
You could consider putting to the side
all contemplation of mortality
and just sticking around. Oh, yeah, it sucks
that you’re in pain, but be a mensch and think
(you might need to wake from your coma first)
of our pain, too. This sorrow is much worse
than cancer (of course I have never had
a cancer, but I had a fish that died
when I was eight. I cried for forty five
minutes straight, I’m told. What a great fish,
I’m told. Now doesn’t that just break your heart?)

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