At Eighty

At 80

You realize
You’re not immortal
Parents long buried
Friends fallen by the wayside
Like spring leaves from an aging tree
Arthritic Bones that creak and moan
Mile walks turned to blocks


The year’s race by like
A track sprinter
Bring me to my mother’s grave
Her tombstone chipped
The words fading


No such fate for me
I’ll go the way of the Indian
My flesh given to flames
No dirt No worms
No suffocating box


Ashes and bone my fate
Monterey or San Francisco Bay

The sunset my head stone
My poems my marker

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