Gianni told me

life is a tragedy

his daughter killed

in a crash in Italy

his son drowned surfing

in India

The Italian government

took his passport

I sent an email for him

asking for reprieve 

no reply

 

years later

we had dinner

on the Nieuwmarkt 

now he's dead

natural causes

 

We are gods

The earth is 

Heaven

Koningsstraat

Jeannie's been dead

for a year and a half

I can't imagine her

sitting outside the gallery

in the sun getting high

 little to say

Prayer And Prozac

no one 

cried

when mother 

died     

a scissored 

Bible

by her 

side

Everything's

Different

The way it is