Hearing that David Cassidy
died, I ask
What are you waiting for?
Cassidy, surrounded
by those he loved
Made a decent escape.
If you die before I wake
in a house you don’t dislike
You will be less fortunate
than a lamented partridge
And less true.
The one you always loved
will turn your lost opportunities
Into a lyrical think piece
for the New York Times
What are the chances
of finding her
Smothered by fame
A fame tinged with fear
exclusively witnessed by you?
David Cassidy’s gone.
Which organ was it
that failed him? Have you
any information?
He died in Florida.
His armpit exposed
on a cover of Rolling Stone
(inky and porous
like a broadsheet
you might have known)
accentuates a Christly torso.
Hair was almost wispy, almost
as controversial as my own.
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Tracy Quan, author of three novels, lives in New York. Her poetry has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Image via Kit on Flickr.
