Where’s Natalie?
Natalie’s dead.
She died of some liver disease
when she was
about five years old.
I knew her when I was a child
Where’s Rickey?
Rickey’s dead.
A large concrete cylinder fell on him
when he was
about ten years old.
I knew him when I was a child
Where’s Kane?
Kane’s dead;
killed in a motorcycle accident
when he was
about sixteen years old.
I went to high-school with him.
Where’s ‘Cheeks’?
'Cheeks' is dead;
Also killed in a motorcycle accident
when he was
about twenty years old.
I knew him when I was a young man.
Is that it?
Nope.
Not by a long shot.
There have been others,
many others.
Then,
Where are you?
I’m still here,
for now...
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