Natural Causes

I died, and they looked in my head: 2 plus 2
Equals 3, and the faucet that dripped unmended,
The cracked gauge on the furnace, the fraying cuff

- These they found, and ten unpaid bills, and
2 plus 2 equals 2; certain marbles I lost as a child
Through a board walk; a flamingo feather I kept

For years but had nothing it went with, a
Foreign thing; one copy of Huck Finn; 20 boxes
Of empty pay envelopes, a pseudo-sheep diploma.

There was talk of heartbreak via the nerves; matter of fact
The autopsy was notable for the splendid tone of the aorta,
And legally bled I lay there in my own ice water.

But they missed the scrap of film — and anyways
Had no unionman, nor a projector of they'd had —
Of the girl running toward me forever through the cloversunned field.