6.02.2021

how did he manage?

My friend tells me 
a man in my house jumped off the roof 
the roof is the eighth floor of this building 
the roof door was locked     how did he manage? 
his girlfriend had said     goodbye I'm leaving 
he was 22 
his mother and father were hurrying 
at that very moment 
from upstate to help him move out of Brooklyn 
they had heard about the girl 
 
the people who usually look up 
and call     jump jump     did not see him 
the life savers who creep around the back staircases 
and reach the roof's edge just in time 
never got their chance     he meant it     he wanted 
only one person to know 
 
did he imagine that she would grieve 
all her young life away     tell everyone 
this boy I kind of lived with last year 
he died on account of me 
 
my friend was not interested     he said     you're always 
inventing stuff     what I want to know     how could he throw 
his life away     how do these guys do it 
just like that     and here I am fighting this 
ferocious insane vindictive virus day and 
night     day and night     and for what?     for only 
one thing     this life     this life 
 

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