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Angry Letter From A Dead Son To A Remarried Mother

Blake Corrao

What did you think
when you met him and he said
that his son too
was a ghost?
Did you think that we
would have...what?
Dead kid play dates?
That he’d protect me in hell
because he was 27 when he
blew his brains against the wall
and I was only 16?
Get real, seriously
I couldn’t find that jerk if I tried
Not with all the people down here
Yesterday I rubbed shoulders with Gandhi
and he told me
that his appeal had been filed
but he’d lost the number for the appeals desk
and disappeared back into the crowd
Because that’s all hell is
a dark crowded place
where smoke fills the sky
and the air has that heavy feeling
of human body heat
think the subway during rush hour
not Dante’s fantasy land
of burning lakes and Catholic demons
and replace retribution with
the confused face of every dead person in history
Positive that you belong in this place
but they surely do not

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