It Is What It Is.
Sempervirens
by Gonzalo
Ferreyra
Kill me there kindly
and bury me there beside
a mouthless tree
its limbs taller than
other tall trees
its attitude that of
a god, neither dismayed nor
angry but certainly
self-assured
and leave me there and say
goodbye
to me there
and visit me there where
I am buried or scatter
my ashes there and say
no prayers
but do me the great favor there
I beg you there I beg you
here
to do the right thing
and forget about me there where
you are
or remember me where
because I am there nestled
among the tallest trees where
I'll remember everything
as if I were there
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Copyright 2006 Gonzalo
Ferreyra
Gonzalo Ferreyra has written one (unpublished) novel and is hard at
work on a second. He's a great admirer of Vladimir Nabokov,
Philip
Roth, and John Cheever but tries his best not to mimic
them when he sits down to write. He lives in Castro
Valley, CA, with his wife and two daughters.
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