My apologies to Alan for being so late in posting his work. This one is also published on jerryjazzmusician.com and the editor of that blog was very complimentary of this one. A shame we have to memorialize our classmates due to deaths way too early, but at least we can remember them with dignity and enjoy Alan's poetry.
ACCIDENTLY PULLED UNDER,
BY THE UNDERTOW
“For Jim Burton And John Emerline.”
just today, I read
in my high school newsletter,
that two 1965 classmates
and friends from kirkwood high:
jim burton
and john emerline
were pulled under
by the undertow.
it was off of the beach
near emerald isle, north carolina.
the day was sunday
july 12, 2020.
it seems enough, in this year
and in these times
to worry about dying
from the virus.
then there is also the constant
and continuing … undercurrent of worry
about accidently contracting, and then
succumbing to the virus.
at the extreme very least
for my two
high school friends
could thus be said:
“he who
dies today
does not
have to worry
about tomorrow.”
william shakespeare.
Published by: www.JerryJazzMusician.com (a national online jazz journal).Sept. 25, 2020. In “Vol. 3, A Collection of Poetry Reflecting the Era of COVID, Black Lives Matter, and a Heated Political Season.” (27th Yount poem published by JJM and his150th poem published).
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