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Ben had his friends overdose him injected pure heroin
Shannon asked that his ashes be spread on Fire Island
Ronald found God but he was just too exhausted and he lost Him again
Teddy was everybody’s buddy he became completely withdrawn
Lindel’s bed was moved to the window there he could watch every dawn
Roddy demanded his body be dumped out on the White House lawn
Noam had been kicked out of his home but he went back to where he belonged
Marty gave a fabulous party no one was allowed to mourn
Jamie was found dead on his paintings shot with every canvas torn
Michael dead
Michael dead was so weird
In his silver bunk-bed
Second row third column
And the sheets were so clean so damn white
He was a beautiful man
He was a beautiful man the day he diad
Sherron was a strong man but his very last words were ‘I’m afraid’
Milo was wild his friends chided him he said he’d never get AIDS
Trevor had his love smother him with the pillow he macramed
Lou refused to go to the hospital he knew he would never leave
Oly slowly slipped into a world of make-believe
Marlon donned his bed with tinsel and garland he died on Christmas Eve
Jake baked a coconut cake for himself on his last birthday
Keeler found a physic healer said he could visualize it away
Kevin never lost his endless optimism not one day
Michael dead
Michael dead was so strange
So quiet so not there
It was Michael but it wasn’t Michael
He was a beautiful man
He was a beautiful man the day he died
Bud just lost it smeared his feces and blood on the bathroom wall
Tex traveled down to Mexico for drugs that did nothing at all
Sid just withered away in his room he had no one to call
Pete stopped speaking completely his mouth was covered with thrush
Rex never stopped having sex he just made it anonymous
Steve said he just had to leave he died right on the Greyhound bus
Nate thought he could escape it by being monogamous
Nasir smashed all of his mirrors he said he was hideous
Ken alienated his friends he was so furious
Scott Free 2008
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