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Original Language
English

my father visits my dream

Themes
  Death
 
 
 
 

 

my father visits my dream
and death had not changed him
and his voice sounded
like it always had

you must stop
intoning my name
like a prayer, calling me
calling me back, I have no desire

to be there, you must stop
with your knockings
and rappings, stay out
stay out of my head

girleen can't you see that the living
have no business haunting
the dead and he laughed
the same kindly laugh

and I woke and death
had not changed him
except he was brighter
than he had ever been

and suddenly he was everywhere:
I had found him again.

 

 

 

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