Medium

Philly, our last trip, 2015

 Dear Will:I'm going to see a highly-recommended medium today. 

I'm sure the you on this side of the veil wouldn't have approved because it's a connection to a world other than the material and you were all about the material world.

I'm going to take the Bible you taught from and a tie, if I still have one that you wore. I trashed or gave away most of your things in 2022.

Anyway, if he can contact your spirit, I want you to know how proud I was of you for being that little boy who survived. You were a fucking annoying little boy at times, for sure.  But you stuck it out a long time on the planet. You made a great career of 33 years, in spite of your differences from your colleagues and friends.  But then, so many of them were crazy too -- and now long dead, most all before you.  You who lived to be 91 even though in your mind you were 65 those last four years. 

You and Miss Birdy, Christmas 2017

I'm sorry you did not die peacefully.  I'm sorry you needed to rage at me before your last stroke, the one that put you into your death coma.  The one that began on Christmas. But I can look at it and see that I wasn't Kake when you were raging at me.  I was someone from your deep past who hurt you in a terrible way.

I hope that during your final coma your heart on this side
found peace.

I love you still and always will (excuse the rhyme).

Kake