I can only imagine the emoticons she felt
when she looked at her iPhone
found out she was too late
by her sister’s fucking status update:
In the words of the best mother & person I ever knew "Live love laugh!" RIP Mommy. Heaven got another angel...hope they r ready 4 her!! XoXoXo
She told me she’d seen that
on the way to the hospital,
before she got a phone call,
before she got the mass text
from her sister’s fiancé
seconds after Angie’s last breath.
I mean, OMG, how could they
treat that so casually?
Alert the social network
before their own family?
Poke empathy
from Facebook friends,
like comments of sympathy
posted on their walls
like a popularity contest
obituary? Seriously?
I am so not LOLing. IDK what’s next.
Upload her hospital room
on YouTube? Hope her passing goes
viral up there with Sneezing Panda
and Antoine Dodson?
WTF.
I listened to her vent
about her forever-dead mother,
about her sister’s lack of tact,
tried my best to console her,
but you can only do so much
on chat.
