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OK.

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How are we doing here.

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We've got a little time.

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OK.

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We're going to end
on some happy note.

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So we'll do three death poems
if we have time for them, so.

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The first one is called
"The Last Clubhouse Eulogy",

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which is the title
poem of my book.

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I stare at the room full of
prospective ghosts trying

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to dignify mortality.

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They tribute the
likeable unfortunate,

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renaming her pain with sunshine.

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Waiting words with ill grown
dream logics weedy asylum.

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The husband remembers
his insoluble adultery

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while the daughter confronts
the physical vacuum

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of near orphan-hood.

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Ignoring languages
inadequacy, they

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gather collective
memories creating

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an oracular familiarity
of she recently passed.

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By a shrewd pruning of her
rueful behavior that does not

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convey the obsession
of her interior motion,

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the new history makes a
long and curious mourning

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of beguiling minimalism.

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This was no blood blunder,
we comfort only the living.

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She definitely receives
our kind words now.

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