Dear grandpa,
I never met who
pulled the trigger.
They say that you
had enemies and
it was the Depression,
but who really knows?
Your ashes were scattered
somewhere in the valley
and the records back then
were never kept the way they
should have been.
Anyways, there is far too much chatter
about all of that now, in the background,
as the evidence of you
expands in every direction
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Havana Times, South China Morning Post, The Buffalo News, and more.
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