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Woman Outside Funeral Home Lighting Up


by Jerry Ratch


 

If you ever find yourself outside a funeral home lighting up

contemplating the future of the unknown, contemplate this

Maybe the cigarette's wet on your lip and you are wondering why

 

Or in the middle of the night you are lying awake

and try saying all of your other lovers' names combined

into one long marvelous, voluptuous name

 

which goes crawling all over your brain like a giant caterpillar

reminding you of who you were, and when, and why

Or if you were ever lonely, or at least alone, at all. Ever

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