Friday, April 11, 2008

NaPoWriMo, Day Eleven, Poem Eleven

Here we go here we go here we go...


Move On

Won't be be coming home
this weekend. Time to find
the reason why--besides exhaustion.

I sit in my office
doing my best impression
of the headstone
I haven't visited yet.

Mom reminded me to live,
before she went out
to clean the yard with glee
while her father bides time
in his hospital bed
to break from his restraints.

The ex-girlfriend you told me
to never lose touch with
(after the break up)
switches between tech support
and asking me advice on new love.

Thanks to her, sis
now surfs the internet
and accumlates viruses
with minimal effort.

An editor once commented
on a story I wrote for my friend
who died while I was in college:
"Why don't you just follow him
into the grave?"

If anyone asked that now,
about you, I would say it's because
I'm sure that even you
wouldn't be there.

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