My parents told me in '63
Directly
My grandmother had died
A day before I saw in dismay
An Ambulance take her away
That very last day
Of my witnessing death
For the next half century
Death came by phone
My second grandmother dead in DC
My closest friend's my mentor's murder
Another friend of twenty years dead of AIDS
My stepbrother and my companion's mother
AIDS and Suicide
Recently my own mother's death
Her fall my brother's call
Broken her hip her heart
Two days ago the suicide of a musician
A student a friend of my friend
Told to me as in distress I offered
Neither wisdom nor comprehension
Jack 3/29/11
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