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Susan G. Duncan

No-one in sorrow

 
     should dig a friend’s grave.

They know this on Lanai--
     it’s a custom

     and a kindness

to ready a hole

as the last one’s taken.


But I dug graves in ‘89,
     two—no, more

     (Louis, Richard, Ben)

dug them and left them waiting--

it wasn’t long.


See, the ground was made ready,
     the sod removed
     (Reagan, Gingrich, Helms)
too late to avoid the sorrow--

and only kind

     when you can’t predict
     who’ll follow.


Susan G. Duncan is presently an independent consultant with a performing and visual arts clientele, capping a long career in arts administration. She served as executive director for San Francisco’s long-running musical comedy phenomenon Beach Blanket Babylon, the al fresco California Shakespeare Theater, and the Grammy-winning, all-male vocal ensemble Chanticleer. Her poetry has appeared in Atlanta Review, Blast Furnace, The MacGuffin, The Quotable, Soundings East, Thema, The Yalobusha Review, and others.
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