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On apartment door
grim reaper heavy metal poster -
learning my brother died today.
Banshee moan
of the underground home -
the train wept.
I saw an ad
with a black woman in a white space suit
pointing up.
Ross left a note -
couldn’t stand the pain
of terminal lung cancer.
J., his girlfriend read it to me.
He began the note: “Hey”
I answered the phone at work
It was my Tibetan teacher
He said “Hey”
(Ross gone 8/6 – Learned and wrote 8/8 & 8/9/06)
copyright 2007
Marc
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