Don lay in an open coffin, nicely dressed.
I fully expected him to wink.
Instead he remained unmoving
Going nowhere.
Reverend Strauss offered the eulogy,
Reading from comments given by family.
Ten minutes later
He read notes furnished by Don’s lover.
Moving between two note sheets,
Reverend Strauss read of two men,
Introducing Don to people who already knew him,
A stranger reaching, unsuccessfully, for a dead man.
Many were here to do the “right thing”,
Knowing Don only as an acquaintance.
They heard that, as a young man, he liked bowling.
I thought,"nice very nice."
At service end I should have felt outrage
Over the banality unwillingly witnessed.
I hoped Don got the joke.
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