your best friend

your best

friend dies, so does your

second best friend,

three

childhood friends

pass on,

and then

it's Lynnie,

and Debbie.

Mary K. in Miami.

Edwina in

Great Falls.

your mother tops the list.

you look

at your phone

and see their faces,

their numbers.

the glow

of them is still there.

you wish that all of them

could be reached.

you wish

that all them were fine.