This is the place. (Cue the funeral music.) This where we all end up. My father-in-law, mother-in-law are interred there. Only their disapproval lives on. There’s former mayors. Many a councilman. Even a state governor. And my ancestors of course. It’s instructive to know the worms are eating their way toward me. It’s Monday afternoon [...]
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CEMETERY by John Grey
Posted in John Grey, tagged poetry on May 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
DEATH TOUR by John Grey
Posted in John Grey, tagged poetry on July 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The camp is still intact but thankfully there’s photographs on walls not bodies in ditches. And I don’t have to prove I’m Aryan. I don’t believe in ghosts of course but the spirits here don’t know that. They haunt the nerves out of my flesh, the gristle from my bones. What was that? A scream? [...]
