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This is an elegy
for Frank Conroy

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who was the director
of the Writers'

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Workshop for a long time
and who died in the spring.

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It's called "April Death".

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Spring morning profusion
is not the worst of grief.

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Declamatory for severe
bluster, low fleets

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of Scylla and breeze.

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And the owls are not
the worst of grief,

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or the car broke down, or
walking into the office,

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ash everywhere.

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The worst of grief
is not sitting alone

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or sitting in a crowd
in your good clothes

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listening to the flowing people.

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The plastic plates
hold up the canopies,

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the women in spring dresses.

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It's not like everyone
had to wear black.

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It's not like it
wasn't expected.

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The worst of grief is not the
next day or the day after that.

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Cat vanish, then come back.

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Nick, scheme, vanish.

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The worst of grief
won't be summer clamor

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of lawnmowers, nebulas
of invading ant,

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light after it
bounced off water.

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The worst of grief is
time becoming a winner.

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Worse grief, worst of
grief is incomplete.