An Impromptu Wake Poem by Donal Mahoney
An Impromptu Wake
A homeless man
hangs himself from a tree
at night in the city
to close out the year.
At dawn a passerby uses
a cell phone to post
his body on social media.
By noon 83,000 people
attend his wake.
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: suicide
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