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A poem from 2018

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21 today

Happy and (old style) gay

22 tomorrow

Life is filled with sorrow

23 on Friday

So fast it goes and he's feeling old

24 on Saturday

Life ebbing away

25 on Sunday

Feeling bright and hopeful again

26

Slapping down those cards

Happy high

One more shot

One more pill

Win or bust

It's bust

One too many

You're dead

You don't get to play another hand

26 was just a dream

27 will never be

28 in the ground

And this is how it goes from now on

And forevermore

But it only ever happens to someone else

Parent's tears

Visits to the grave

Flowers

Words

But you don't hear

That was it