50

In 2004 we traveled to Philadelphia
to say goodbye to your friend.
Inside a temple where you could stand
up whenever you wanted.

We stayed in a house with tall stacks of papers
and a salon of religious paintings on the walls.
I caught my first cockroach in a shot glass.
I thought it was a cricket.

It was the first time I saw you play
the bass with your old friends in the
old band and Rose gave you a hard time.
And the wife was so happy because

this was all he ever wanted.
He always talked about it.
-Hannah

At what time, what place
Did it sink in;
Did it start to feel
So long

At what point did it change
You always felt so young
You always said
"I'm only twenty-five"

I wish you would have known then
How you would feel now
I wish we could have helped
Yet what's done is done

I wish I could have seen you one last time
-KM