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NO TIME by BILLY COLLINS

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First Line: IN A RUSH THIS WEEKDAY MORNING
Subject(s): CEMETERIES; FAMILY LIFE; DEATH; PARENTS; GRAVEYARDS; RELATIVES; DEAD, THE; PARENTHOOD;
In a rush this weekday morning,
I tap the horn as I speed past the cemetery
where my parents are buried
side by side beneath a slab of smooth granite.

Then, all day, I think of him rising up
to give me that look
of knowing disapproval
while my mother calmly tells him to lie back down.


Copyright © 2000 by The Modern Poetry Association.
This poem appears in the December 2000 issue of @3Poetry@1 Magazine.
http://www.poetrymagazine.ord




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