Thursday, July 30, 2009

Prom, 1980s (for Jeff Tate)

Looking at old photos
Of a new friend
On a weirdly cool
July evening.
In the pictures
He’s about the age
Of my younger son
And as I look at him
In his silver tux
With his big-haired
Small-town girlfriend
Something in my heart
Dances slowly with Death.

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