Eulogy

She's the reason him and I took the long way home from school

and I wish I had some better way to show this

now that we all choke amongst scholars. 

Maybe some way to say her without using that word

which is dirtier than all words as it carries a vulgarity 

inspired by its own semantic decay:

A cup of water in July. A picture of rocks on a beach

or more recently: the last rat of summer 

flattened like bloody dough beat 

into the pavement. 

Suffice to say: I am not kidding when I speak of a time

in which I had aesthetic problems with the concept of the modern Umbrella

but because of Her and High School and Rain and...