The roll call is read
the dead members of a
reunioning high school class
twenty-fifth, thirtieth, fortieth…
‘In Memoriam’ reads the blurb
on the back page of the program
momentary reverence emceed
and just for a briefest moment,
time truly does stand still
classmates remembering those
whose eternity came early
thinking of them as they were
and as they would never be
then, the D.J. plays on.
The night is young.
Ponderable polemics, poetic 