Planning my funeral
feels familiar.
Line up poems.
Tune in songs.
Create a program,
calming the house.
Sequence for effect.
Laughter. Tears.
No rehearsal.
Single staging.
Transform errors
into improvisations.
My last feature.
Perform and pretend.
Muted.
Front row.
Box seat.
Richard Fox’s poems feature rock ’n roll and youthful transgressions, but his focus is cancer and hospice from the patient’s point of view. He is the author of eight poetry collections and winner of the 2017 Frank O’Hara Prize. smallpoetatlarge.com
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