The Negotiation

Joe Nickell

For Tom Flynn

How can I believe

you’re dead?

It’s only something

someone said.

Would

you leave

us here to grieve,

when you could give

the lie to, instead?

Perhaps yet live

& not let go,

for we do

remember so—

remember then,

remember when,

at last

though

remember best,

were you here again.

Joe Nickell

Joe Nickell, PhD, is a former investigator with a world-famous detective agency who has been consulted in homicide and questioned-document cases. Among his numerous books are Relics of the Christ and The Science of Miracles.


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