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Death Notices

[First published in “Love and Fear: A Poetry Anthology, 2003.]

she died

even the ambulance

was ambivalent

a baby died

lying still on its back

they thought about

their income tax

1000 died

spiraling down in a plane

his world remained

exactly the same

a fly dies

legs kicking in the air

all the ceremony

of a Jew with no hair

shoveled into the earths gaping hungry trench where

your god (not mine)

I’m bound by truth to say

amuses himself

in strangely mysterious ways