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Conversations
a day of grieving, 1/22/94

VII

there has been a lot of
death
in my family

my brother died
when he was three
i was seven

his appendix exploded
they operated
then they realized
a sponge was missing

it was inside of him

they gave him
some extra penicillin
opened him up again

there was an infection
they removed
the sponge
closed him up

gave him more
penicillin
but they didn’t know
he was allergic

he died within two weeks

my other brother
overdosed on drugs
when he was twenty-seven
i was twenty-six

then a year ago
my son died
he was hit by a car
he was thirteen

at my brother’s funerals
everyone ended up
going to a restaurant
and getting drunk
for hours

i didn’t want that for my son

i made sandwiches and coffee
at my house

in the church it was
standing room only
everyone from the seventh
and eighth grade was there

everyone from every
fire department my
husband ever worked for
was there

there was even a fire truck
for a bed of flowers

there were lines out the door
to the church
there wasn’t any drinking

and people flooded me
at my house

all in all
it was a
very nice funeral

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