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A Requiem for Sara, Dead New Year’s Day at age 44, 1995


Alan Catlin



A rememberance to Sara who spoke of her strong
will to live, also of her willfulness that
authority of any kind. Also her warmth
of spirit, her infectious laugh, her genius
as an artist in a multiplicity of forms and
of those penetrating blue eyes that stared
through us in all those portraits hung about
the room where we gathered to remember.
Moose sang of a sad-eyed gypsy, flitting from
town to town, job to increasingly meaningless
job, staying out late into the night ordering,
“Hey, Mr. Bartender, just one more drink before
I go home.” We stood in silence, so many bartenders,
Moose included, who poured Sara those drinks
for the road that stretched farther and farther
into the night until there could be no end in
sight but this. Looking at the 1995 calendars
finished the day before you died, we wished
you had partaken of some of the recipes inscribed
on the pages instead of drinking Vodka in water
glasses until you could no longer eat.
Strapped on the useless life supporting machines
what was left of your body completely failed
and now there is nothing left to do but sit
in dark listening to Mozart’s Requiem
wearing your Albany dead 1992 t-shirt and
thinking of you laughing at just how pretentious
this would be to you. Better that Gary and Moose
played an original song in memory of Sara
you would prefer to that definitely unfunky
long hair music Sara, no matter what music plays,
no one laughs when the requiem begins.



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