Friday, August 20, 2021

WALKING

My friend David, dead two years

Come Thanksgiving, has joined me

As I walk down Murray Street

Towards Plandome Road. 

I've been meaning to tell him

That he's dead and that his obit

Says he's survived by his dog.

But what use to tell him this?

Better to listen to one more of his

Glorious, superbly told lies

Or sing about Betty Coed for him

(The version where Betty is

A vampire: Betty Coed 

Has eyes of red

For Harvard; Betty Coed 

Has lips of blue 

For Yale.)

 

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