"Benediction"
i stand back
as you bend over to touch her hair
speaking to the wild eyes
the gaping
mouth trying helplessly to help her relax and let go
but you can tell shes fighting it
clinging
to this nothingness as if it were still
a life to live and you say were here patsy its me
and heres jim too we love
you love you murmuring it over and over like a prayer
on cnn someone says pray for our heroic
boys and girls
to bring them home again safe from
and i glance at the roommate who never
has visitors at all
who lies on her side facing the block wall
as she masturbates under the covers
eyes closed fucking her husband who died in fifty-three
reaching out to put
a trembling arm around him and hump her wet
diaper against his groin
pledging her troth anew every time she hears you murmur
i love you
© 2005 Native Dancer-Jim Lineberger
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