Last Burial from OK City

The last victim who died

in the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing

was buried today,

in Tennesse

.

Alvin Justus, a lonely veteran,

often spent his days at the Federal Credit Union,

enjoying the company of the employees.

 

In the beginning,

no one missed him.;

until his landlord

wanted the rent.

 

He died with his only friends,

The only people who would have missed him.

Reviews

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

the matter of fact peel back of this reality gives the poem a deep inhale quality~and there at the end one comes up for air~ wondering how many walk as unnoticed ghosts among us until something is required of them~ deeply poignant and moving~