Lynn Moeskau (pronounced “moss-cue”)
was one of my first friends here on the outside.
He died fetus-like on the floor of my apartment:
after giving everything else away he
just picked up his marbles and went home.
“How broad are your shoulders?”
he asked before he told me.
It was so early in the epidemic
even with the tears in his eyes
I didn’t guess.
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