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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