Glenn

            Glenn was 12 years old
            when his appendix burst
            and he died
            on the operating table.
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 ^         I never met him.
            I was in the fourth grade
            I remember standing outside,
            watching Dad
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^           drive up the gravel road,
            headed to his sister’s house
            in Ohio,
            for the funeral.
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 ^         He was gone three,
            four,
            or five days.
            I can’t remember.