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today

today I’m mourning the disaster of my first marriage the wasted years and my many failures to know what I know now mourning mostly for my daughter her logical mind, her mind capable of learning lost to prescriptions for chronic pain dead before she was 40 heart stopped after midnight on a late January Saturday morning by one last drink

from middle year poems — Bill Eberle

November 2017     © 2017, Bill Eberle