This Is Where They Leave Us  
Another damn funeral.
The spirit of my dead friend
whispers like a tuning fork:

You don't matter very much.
I, less, existing only in you.
You can only be reminded of me
in someone else's --
or else your own --
arc of phrase, cadential gesture.
I, made of memory, remember nothing
but what you may recall.
 
 
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