Small Talk
Talk to a person
whose dying. I don't
know how to do it. She's
eighty-seven years old
and has some kind of cancer.
Her gall bladder has to
come out. She once said
if I could have chosen,
you would be no different.
Her gall bladder's not
working. My sister drove
us apart. How did
it get so late, so early.
Gil Hoy
Gil Hoy is a Boston poet, semi-retired trial lawyer and politician, who served as a Brookline, Massachusetts Selectman for four terms. Hoy’s poetry has appeared most recently in Tipton Poetry Journal, Chiron Review, Ariel Chart, The Potomac, The Penmen Review, The New Verse News, Right Hand Pointing and elsewhere.
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