The hospice volunteer read from a book of poems about death.<\/p>\n
It contained rainbows.
\nAnd also wolves, bald eagles, spotted owls, blue whales,
\n a veritable who’s who of the endangered species list.
\nAll of them welcoming a freed spirit<\/p>\n
Maybe they didn’t know my mom had let her membership to Greenpeace lapse.
\nOr maybe they did, but also that when that quack came around saying shark cartilage was a magic cure,
\n I’d said no.
\n Not just because it wouldn’t work
\n but for the sharks<\/p>\n
Or maybe, as the poem implied, they were just overjoyed at the death of a human.
\n Any human.
\nThinking, “Thank gods. If enough of them die, we might get to live after all.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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