TELEGRAM
I got the telegram
from Bergman’s gloomy
chess player
before I could
chisel any kind of epitaph
even a self-effacing joke one
the chisel was blunt anyway
and I have no skill
in this matter
and my Latin
and French are so weak
no hope there of going out
with an epigram
strident
or mellifluous
no, I guess
they need to find
a better home for
such fine
unmarked stone.
poems 2 die for 