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Article: The Unconsoled.(Poem)
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- Prairie Schooner
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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The Unconsoled
That blood-curdling cry, that sharp ascending wail:
Wooooh sweet jesus somebody wake up the world!
Adrenaline still courses through my veins
And I am running banging on my own front door
To rouse my father slow to rouse inside;
When the 911 woman asks if he's alive
I tell her I don't know his wife just found
Him please god you've got to send someone!
After the coroner has come and shown
How purple marks on the dead man's chest spell heart
Attack, pronounced him dead, zipped up the bag
And gone, She, the girl I was, stands out
Behind her neighbor's pulpwood truck--the truck
He did not drive today, nor will ...
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