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Barton Started conversation Jun 6, 2001
In Memoriam -- Barton Lynn Rolsky
1948 -- Sometime Tomorrow Afternoon
They won't sing when I'm gone. At least,
they won't sing all that long.
The work I left undone's increased
There'll be no twenty guns.
The final word's been said, "Deceased."
And that means what you've read.
I would have liked to live some more,
I gave you what I give.
I'd hoped my kicking at the door
Would rouse your quaking flat.
I hope I shocked you to your core
That's what I tried to do.
"This rhyme won't scan," I've heard you said.
"The way it stops 'sabsurd."
Yet follow still the way you're lead,
Hear what I planned to say
It stops that way because I'm dead,
Forgive me while I pause.
For immediate release.
(One can only hope.)
Barton Is Dead, Barton Is Really Dead
Barton Posted Jun 6, 2001
Please ignore this since my original posting has been reinstated.
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