Last Race at Churchill Downs
Apr 20 2011 Filed in: Jims Poems
Last Race at Churchill Downs
My cousin was dying
In a hospital room
Watching his last Kentucky Derby
On TV with a catheter
Hanging out of his dick.
We watched the race together
That April day, me and him.
It was over in a couple of minutes
After all that hype, just like that.
Like life itself. And we looked
At each other
With lame smiles
And parted without saying goodbye.
--
The fourth law of thermodynamics
Says empathy must always increase,
And that love will become disorderly,
Until hearts die everywhere
And the universe is still.
My cousin was dying
In a hospital room
Watching his last Kentucky Derby
On TV with a catheter
Hanging out of his dick.
We watched the race together
That April day, me and him.
It was over in a couple of minutes
After all that hype, just like that.
Like life itself. And we looked
At each other
With lame smiles
And parted without saying goodbye.
--
The fourth law of thermodynamics
Says empathy must always increase,
And that love will become disorderly,
Until hearts die everywhere
And the universe is still.