Words for Death

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Late last year
Annie Franklin
died
at the tender age...
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Lifestar landed in the burning grass
But there was no need for a rescue flight.
It got sixty full seconds on the evening news.
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On the side of the road
near the spot
where she
joined the choir invisible
(bought the farm,
bit the dust, paid the piper,
shat the bed)
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is a small white cross
festooned with plastic flowers
of every hue
(and some you can't imagine)
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On the cross
are these words:
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You are loved
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