I don't want the flag

Here are three stanzas from “I don’t want the flag”, a fairly recent piece, so it will be revised, several times I presume:

my daddy thought he’d get a call someday that I had ended life

a 3:23 morning call came

someone else had done it to me

 

two remove my coffin flag

step away

drape

corner

stretch

taut

fold

snap

fold again

over and

over

 

my daddy

doesn’t want to hold my flag

I don’t believe I

deserve it

I have never seen

my daddy

cry

 

© 29 November 2020

Cindy B. Stevens

 

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