approaching the first day of August

my God the summer's half over already


wasn't it just mere hours ago

we sat at an outdoor cafe


in the night of the longest day

drinking and laughing


and mere minutes since we sat

a deathwatch for a dying relative


stricken with pancreatic cancer

quickest and most deadly of cancers


a death sentence for its unscreenability

until too late...and mere seconds since


the middle of July saw another turn of fortune

to the good? I understand nothing


as time dissolves and there is only now....





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