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27

In Memory of Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and all the others in the Club.

perhaps
my idols
have each

one died
a time
too many

at 27
I've died
just enough

times
to begin
living

(or have
I finally
died

a death
that's
different?)

dressed
my self
in black

baptized
my lungs
in ashes

anointed
my soul
w. spirits

pulled
my penance
out

lived
in love's
communion

strummed
hymns of
our sins

wrote
a rosary
of poetry

absolved
her
of me

singing
dolorous
confirmation

to this
sonorous vow
I've taken

to euphoric
inner
matrimony

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