Dusty's Funeral

DUSTY’S FUNERAL

Poetry by Johnny D. Boggs

Dusty’s Funeral

vicki fainted at mister bill’s funeral

overheated (in november)

perry sang sweet beulah land at daddy’s

and the reverend stan

read

robert louis stevenson

at the graveside

memories of other funerals touch me

on the back row

how will i remember Dusty’s

10 cowboy hats on laps

and one on Dusty's casket

140 chairs

all occupied

by some i know

though none well

mostly strangers (Dustynevermetastranger)

and this thought saddens me

still on the back row

how many stories

did Dusty tell them

that I never heard

and

never

will