Death is usually inconvenient,
but also extremely colloquial,
a glance in the bathroom mirror
when you brush your teeth;
naked and sudden
as Marine's demise
related by Rebecca Solnit
on pages 100 – 103
in A Field Guide to Getting Lost
in The Canon's reprint from 2017,
and it's everywhere and all the time;
at times a collective story on an Indian train;
other times the state after a last breath
in an old age home,
- but it is ours:
At the last opportunity, not before,
we have it,
fully fledged