autopsy report came in today
showed I’d been dead for ten years
I’d had a good
relationship
with the primary MD
we’d talked about my future but
he never mentioned I’d died
all those trips to his office, dead
more than one hundred fifty drives over the bridge
to his building
the one with the view of the Golden Gates
ten years dead
about the time it took to
finish the novel
master the art of photographing birds in flight
learn Russian
exhibit my abstract “Work in Progress” painting
never mind,
I can stop worrying now
what do doctors know, anyway?
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