The last person
to put me on
is dead. Come
closer. You can
still smell his
breath on me.
I promised to
protect him
even when his
family refused
to get jabbed,
got their panties
all in a twist
over some
misinformation
going around
at the time—
you really can’t
be too careful
these days
when they say
hindsight is
twenty twenty
though I do
look pretty good
slung over
where a pair
of hot pink
fuzzy dice
used to hang—