last visit (ode to dwight)

brownish –

            purplish lesions outside

and in

            your bed

            you asked, “were those just fuck-

fuck days?”

            and i said, “no.  didn’t

you know

            how much i really

loved you?”

were we

            too inexperienced

in love?

            and, i, too naive to

accept

            your dying, invited

you to

            come visit when you were feeling

better.

now.

billy berko