Roadside Memorial
Your life has been reduced
to a roadside memorial
of fake flowers bought at Dollar General
which have faded with time
Appropriate
considering the way you lived
bloated by too much cheap liquor
surrounded by empty Amazon boxes
and old National Geographic magazines
and weighted down by your past
For years
you tried to make it better
turn things around
but nothing ever stuck
and eventually everything spiraled
right back down the drain that was your existence
Where were those mourners when you were still alive
It’s not like I claimed it as my own. I gave you credit for it.