How We Die

“We need to change

sides of the river”,

he said to me

as he died

at that hospital

in a Boynton

Beach strip mall.

While his neighbors

looked for bargains

on either side

at Publix and

the One Price Cleaners

next door.

“We need to chain

sides the river”,

then he let

go my hand

and let go

the chains

as well.

– just now in boynton