LOST AND FOUND is a poem of the Last of the Memorial Day Reflections about Loss...Arlene was my Friend...we wrote a 'Book' together, long ago...really quite a Story.....

LOST AND FOUND

Somewhere
in the great
Lost and Found
in the sky

is the soul
of Arlene

who was as complex
a piece of human
as one could be

she would
love too hard
laugh too hard
sing too hard
work too hard
laze too hard
talk too hard
lie too hard
hate too hard
help too hard
hurt too hard
live too hard

and
she

died too hard

All of that is in
this really great
Lost-and-Found
in the sky

where
I'm going to send
her writings
her tapes
her videos
her pictures

her 'Book'

forthwith

there all of her
and all her
stuff
will sit
all dust
for
all time

and no one
will claim
anything

because
all of
her
is

really
gone

and you can
look for all time

in that Lost
and Found

still, will
never
find
one

Arlene

ever
again