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What three words

Katharine the Mother in Law 1969 (London)

Shaped
What three words
Your gravel grave
We lost you
You left us
Alone in pain
Grid reference suicide
Verb.chestnuts.faded
Those three words
Will hurt forever
So that’s that
They found you
Dead in your
Roadside recovery coffin
Where were we?
Where were you?
Finally flying free
Now we fade

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On the suicide of my son in law aged 32

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Written on November 11, 2022

Submitted by Kitehandle on November 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFFAGHCIJKCKL
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 291
Words 59
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
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