Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff
Author:David Rakoff [Rakoff, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-385-53522-9
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-07-15T16:00:00+00:00
Perhaps there are those who consider it shameful
That Helen comes yearly, all dressed up and gameful.
Just showing herself in the very same setting
Cannot be a help to ensure folks’ forgetting.
But she won’t stay home or remain out of sight.
To do so, she thinks, would just prove that they’re right.
She might have been drunk and too forward, uncouth
But each word she’d spoken had been but the truth.
Miss one or two parties and then, before long
The general consensus would be, “She was wrong.”
A version to which she refused to be pliant,
So each year, she stands there, alone and defiant
While others quaff cocktails and gradually lose
The strictures that slowly dissolve with the booze.
There’s tippling and coupling, embracing with brio.
And all being scored by the hired jazz trio.
Helen just stands there, observing it all,
Sipping her gimlet against the far wall.
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