I got a call yesterday <br />About Gloria,74 years old, <br />From her sister,69, a smoker all her life <br />Plus drank a fifth of rum, <br />Everyone thought she <br />Would go first <br />But cancer demolished Gloria through and through. <br />Lucy and Lorenzo said I should send flowers <br />For fifty dollars <br />Such kind children <br />Instead <br />I sent a Mass Card for five because <br />How does the inside of a coffin breathe.<br /><br />Charles Chaim Wax<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-friend-5/
