Button poetry-I went to six funerals.

Button poetry-I went to six funerals.

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In 2020, I went to six funerals.
One, a good funeral is 
like a good wedding,
short service, long afterparty.

Two, I think of the dead mostly 
how I think of a friend who left town
until I catch myself wondering 
how they are
and realize they are nowhere.

Three, the answer to the question 
of evil in Judaism is humor.
God cannot stop a tragedy 
so She taught us how to plant
laughter in its underbrush.

Button poetry-I went to six funerals.

Point

The point is, as my Grandpa always said,
being somber is for Presbyterians.
Our death parties are more raucous 
then our New Year's parties.

Four, the amount I mourn one's dying
is less related to how close we were,
and more to how much their death 
makes nonsense of the universe.

I hadn't seen Maggie in three years,
but when I hear she died
due to complications from a broken leg,
the world becomes godless.

The sun stays out all night.
Things begin to fall from the sky
at different speeds.
Maggie does not decompose 
into the earth to be reborn a tree

Button poetry-I went to six funerals.

But rather sits 

in an underground box forever
and does the only thing 
that lifeless things can
which is turn into smaller 
and smaller lifeless things,
until they are just their own stillness.

Five, Roger Ebert gave 
the film Magnolia four stars,
even though he found it deeply flawed.
This sentiment closely parallels 
that of the eulogy

I delivered for my grandfather.
Six, my estranged friend Sarah jumps
out of a window,
and two days later there is a funeral,
and after the Mourner's Kaddish,
I leave and drive to the first place 
I can find that is not a room

Button poetry-I went to six funerals.

of crying fathers.

So I sit in a Burger King parking lot
staring at a notebook,
wondering how to write an elegy
for a friend I no longer loved.
There's too much darkness in the daybreak
for the sunset to be clean.

Too much darkness in your silhouette,
your smile can't be seen.
Another dark hole in this grassy knoll,
it almost seems obscene.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I hadn't seen you in so long.

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