Questions

When did you last see your father?

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Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on it?

When he exhaled his last breath?

When he sat up and said something?

When he last recognized you?

When he last smiled?

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When did you last see your father?

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The last time he was healthy, active?

The last time you had an argument about something?

Those weeks we tried to say goodbye were like a series of depletions.

Each day I thought, “He can’t get less like himself than this. “

Yet each day he did.

So I’ve been trying to recall the last time I actually saw him.

The last time he was unmistakably there,

in the fullness of being…

… him.

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