the only thing i will remember about my
chinese violin teacher's wife's funeral
after she shot herself
and left a brown stain
on the floor in the
teaching room
by the picture window which
she might have done
by spilling a plant or
shooting herself the only thing i remember
i was 9 or 10
is her friend
at the podium
at the church
telling stories
the only thing I can remember:
“why do americans put cheese on everything?”
i can't even remember what she looked like.