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Poetry: Tragedy

by Eric Lies

Created on: November 14, 2009

He once was a boy.


His raincoat lay upset

on the living room floor-

not a drop, a splatter, of rain

cooled its dry body.

A torn envelope caught itself

within a frozen hand-

the letter lay shivering

open upon a lap.

"We regret to inform you-"

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