Vinnie Sarrocco is a poet and ne’er-do-well hailing from the American South. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Coffin Bell, SPREAD, Beholder Magazine, & others. He is the author of the chapbook “Under the Oak Tree”, and his full-length collection is scheduled to be published with Chatwin Books in 2019.
Eulogy
He was a man
whose keys were
persistently slipping
off their metallic band;
a magnet for ghosts
that once belonged
to benign pranksters/
The kind of guy
who finds himself
in sentences
he’s yet to read
but will someday/
A man with too many
bones rattling around
beneath thin skin
clanking down hallways
audible only in the
sounds of humming fans
and ambient low whispers
of those with nothing
interesting to say
He was/
Mostly.