POEM: Eventualities

Eventualities

We talked about what would happen
when one of them dies.

“All The Things You Are” is playing.

I have closed the curtains.

Anyway when one of them dies.

Is what we talked about.

By the way that song is over.

The neighbor is mowing again.

The thing is, see, when one of them dies.

I don’t know the name of this next song.

Perhaps I should have another iced tea.

There will come a day when it’s over.

We talked about this.

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10 August 2023
Charlottesville VA

This is poem 20 in a series called 50 Days Till 50 Years. I’m writing a poem a day between now and my 50th birthday. I’m going to try to focus on memories of my past, and the people who inhabited it.