Bone

Framed in doorway

crumpled in Buddha shape

complected of another race

Indeed, you traveled far

Gift to yourself

at great price

to your Mother

Cellmate woke

           to you ajar

           and gone

You paved

his rough road:

           Suspicion

           Accusation

           Unanswerable

           Question

But you hung six feet

from sleeping men

Seems indecent:

           could not get

           away to get

           away

Bury Christmas

           with dope-line

           choke-line Bury

           Christmas for the boys

           next door Bury Christmas

           You Old Boy and bury it

           once more