Every Time is the Last Ever

EVERY TIME IS THE LAST EVER

"We know not the hour"

How many more times will I walk downstairs
and what last things have I already seen?
The day before the night, the last round of the clock.
The year I went home, never to see Dublin again.
Our last Christmas dinner: that was it, no leftovers.
When we met in the pub in twenty-eighteen, l’chaim!
We shared those last embraces before the pandemic.
And the last poem I ever wrote, well is this it?

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Photo: Bathmat towel with a random thread that looks like the number 78 on it.