LAMENT
LAMENT
After you died
in the accident
I was so sad
that I wrote your name in soap
on the back window of my car
“R.I.P” with the dates underneath.
Beside it I drew a picture of you
from one I took with my cell phone.
It looked pretty close
but the nose was all fucked up
because I ran out of room.
I drove it around all day
playing songs you liked
and yelling junk at girls.
It rained a couple days later
and half the words got washed off
so it just said “I.P. – 2009.”
And it made the drawing of you look like a penguin.
I went to redraw it but
the only soap I had was the kind in the bottle
the one that smells like apricots.
You used to wear that soap.
I really miss you.
I wish you weren’t dead, bro.