Northern California Funeral
Robert Balmano
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Failed Catholic, failed agnostic, failed Zen
     Buddhist

But a first-rate bullshitter

No bread, lived like a monk

Cremation

Coffee Can Cheap

No Frills

Short and sweet

Speak barely a peep,

Then drop my ground-down bones at the point

Where the Big Sur river meets the Pacific Ocean

I just don't want to be there when it happens,
    okay?


Robert Balmanno's debut novel, September Snow (the first volume of a projected tetralogy), will be published by Regent Press as "A Caveat Lector Book" in spring 2006.