Bill touched a note for me as I had to write a piece for a dear family
member (in Adelaide) who had died
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Sent: 27 June 2012 01:37
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Subject: death comes to the coast - wednesday snap
all's been in readiness for some time now.
bedside hospital hours all done.
photos and memories, browsed and bruised.
each available progeny has prepared
two or three A4 sheets of 'special memories'
to share with those of us still living.
metaphor abounds.
new rooms entered,
reefs beyonded.
the mayoress assured him
only a fortnight ago,
he'd be back.
yeah, he croaked,
from the good half
of his stroke afflicted lips,
as
smoke
signals.
Bill Wootton 27.6.12
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