Natural Causes

I died, and they looked in my head: 2+-2

Equals 3, and the faucet that dripped unmended,

The cracked gauge on the furnace, the fraying cuff

-These they found, and ten unpaid bills, and

2+-2 equals 2; certain marbles I lost as a child

Through a boardwalk; a flamingo feather I kept

For years but had nothing it went with, a

Foreign thing; one copy of Huck Finn; 20 boxes

Of empty pay envelopes, a pseudo-sheep diploma.

There was talk of heartbreak via nerves; matter of fact

The autopsy was notable for the splendid greater and lesser aorta,

And legally bled I lay there in my own ice water.

But they missed the scrap of film-and anyway

Had no unionman, nor a projector if they'd had-

Of the girl running toward me forever through the cloversunned

field.