Beautiful

Beautiful


it was a typical
hospital room

lights......tubes....
the soft hummmmmm
of an oxygen machine
nurses coming
and going

just before she died
........as the names
of things started
to evaporate...

she raised up....
...looked around
the room with
soft baby eyes
and said:



"Beautiful"



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They came...

friends and friends
of friends, relatives,
old lovers,
children and grandchildren
one last look
at her image,
as if death must be
formalized with flowers
and copper coffin

her last tender touch
i felt on my cheek
flowers waved
as she walked by

her name was Beauty
and she died an untimely death.