Charon's Playlist

Let's workshop this poem about a man so overcome with his lost youth that he cannot bear to listen to the oldies playlist his daughter made for him while he sits through the long hours of chemotherapy

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Charon's Playlist

Songs of youth dug up
too many buried 
dreams and regrets; 
they mushed his face in it,

in how fast it all went,
too deeply for him 
to indulge his bubbly daughter
and sit there

through the chemo
hours listening
to an Mp3 device she loaded
with Blue Oyster Cult.

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