BONEYARD

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Shovel the earth &

shovel it deep

Lower into the sepulchre

Surround the burrowed

space w/ lilacs & eulogies--

Family tears

Seal the earth up again

for a child had been

consigned to rest here

For another child

embittered

had shown him his most

glorified toy from youth

his lifelong phobia:

The receiving ...

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