Tom

By Niamh Boyce

I’ve gone and broke the spine
of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Facebook tagged you in Sligo
and for that second, that fraction of-

well, I thought you were alive
and bawled at the good of it all 

me, here making shite of books
about dying – you there
warming your bodhrán.

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