“For my late friend” was published in Short and Twisted (Celapene Press) last year.

for my late friend

i’m weary of the euphemisms

friends keep saying you’ve passed

like it was a test

meanwhile most of you went up in flames

and we’re all breathing in your molecules

on a daily basis

our conversations       and your smiles

exist only                         in my synapses.

you were always punctual

so why do they keep calling you late?

let’s face it        you’re never going

to get here

Two audio versions of My late friend:

For my late friend

rob walker: spoken word / production

music: Gurdonark

Late friend

Stefan Kartenberg – bass and beats

Admiral Bob – beats, guitar and rhodes

billraydrums – drums

Andrew Wainwright – piano, strings and horn

Aussens@iter – guitar

robwalkerpoet – spoken word

speck – production

As always, thanks fellow collaborators and ccmixter.org

Thanks to Justin Lowe for selecting my poem Free in Philadelphia for his poetry website Bluepepper. I began this one in 2016 after splitting my eyebrow following a visit to historic Independence Hall where the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. Nothing like turning pain into poetry…

READ HERE

There’s also a musical version of the poem (my spoken word, Aussens@iter’s killer guitar) HERE

(image from Wikipedia)