Mother comes up one day
tears on her face
and shouts, "****'s DEAD!"
We sit in shocked silence
while she calls his neighbor,
a friend.
His mother wouldn't tell anybody
how he did it or why.
All we know:
he made his own choice.
In black, my father and brother visit.
They bring back fruit.
****'s family doesn't want it anymore.
Nobody mentions it again
But when we see them
There's something missing, wrong,
As they pretend to have fun
half a year later
I know we're all thinking
He would have sat there.
scary.
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