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Poetry: My own obituary

A private ceremony was held

honoring the deceased.

Dying with shaved legs

and clean underwear

she did not die under

the worst possible conditions

as feared by her mother.

Her kids had been tucked

safely in bed

with a kiss on the head,

a breath of their sweet smell,

and being told they were loved.

Her students were left

to go on in life

not too deeply scarred

by her attempt to educate them,

but as successful intelligent citizens.

She left a bit of clutter lying about

and laundry still undone

as well as a bed

that needed to be made,

but she never regretted

the ball games or dance recitals,

romantic movies or dinners,

poetry writing or the book reading

that she did instead.

In the end she did her best

and that was all she wrote.

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