Inscription

'In Memory of the Day Before: June 8 1957.'

-Penciled on the opening page;
I bought the book to keep those words.
I was not born, I was not there,
I think I must be for the birds.
I hope the Day Before was one
you still recall with softened look;
Yet, then I pause and wonder how
You ever parted with the book.

-TheElementary