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Written in 2017, I recalled my childhood group of friends and I giving a dead field mouse a viking funeral in a nearby stream for being so brave trying to navigate through a unfilled in ground pool. It was both very sweet but it awakened a sense of fear of my own mortality, and reawakened some trauma I had of seeing my passed away brother.
Amidst summer’s day
Post middle school finale
In the concrete valley
A vanguard viking lay
We gathered as a ragtag crew
Peeled his corpse off the floor
Carrying him, despite the gore.
To the stream, as we knew what to do
Fashioning a mausoleum of straw
Hoping he felt no disdain,
His grave enveloped in flame
And gently floated away.
It was there I thought to myself,
“What is the meaning of it all?”
Copyright © B. Andrew Kelly | Year Posted 2024
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