While we was out fishin'
you were drowning
on a purty Erie day
nineteen years old
is much too young to die
and go away.
Now somebody's gonna be mournin'
while we're camping & drinking
pulled out by your feet
and all we were worried about
that night was what
were we gonna have to eat?
Life is strange that way, ain't it?
we're so unaffected by death
even when inches away
as long as it's not happening to us.
E. Ell 7/3/90