Lawrence Hall, HSG
Another Funeral in
Margaritaville
Introibo ad altare Dei.
Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meum.
-Missale Romanum
Of course all our friends are dying away
Old age sneaks up on us, ghosting us in turn:
Yevgeny, Jimmy, Dusty, Judith, Rod, and we
Who blessed each other in our happy youth
But I tell you we have a duty to sing our songs
Our perhaps artless lines lost long ago
Except that they’re not: we gave them to God
And He joined them to Creation for all of us
Of course all our friends are dying away
Except that they’re not
See you
in Margaritaville
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