Elegy for Claude

We did take the world

Didn’t we, Niño?

Took all the dim bar light

And made it sing

Didn’t we, Niño?

Made the girls call our name

At least some of time

Didn’t we, Niño?

And even dared take the city lights

And bend them into dreams

Didn’t we, Niño?

And in the end

Knew for sure

How the gleam in your eyes

Would simply go on forever

We did know that

Didn’t we, Niño?

Claude Haton

R.I.P. Claude Haton

My little brother

November 1, 1955 to July 19, 2014

Note: A benefit concert in Claude’s honor will be held August 1 in Cairo, N.Y. (proceeds go to scholarship fund for local high school students).

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