REQUIEM FOR BILL

Your son was adequate.

Your son was passable.

Your son is gone.

He has left us

and we will miss him

but only so much

for he had the misfortune

to die at a time of cataclysm

a time when so many others have suffered

where our world feels a different loss.

Your son is gone

but he left us inconveniently

his departure ill timed.

He is gone

and we will miss him

slightly.