“Favor,” by Franz Wright

My death is in the second drawer.

While you’re standing there would you mind getting me one?

And there should be a couple left in the medicine cabinet,
when I
wake up.
If I
wake up.
If I
wake up
tomorrow.
But I am confused, I thought
today was tomorrow.
If I
wake up
in a second,

on the right side of the mirror.

—Franz Wright (1953-2015)

This is drawn from “Axe in Blossom: Last Poems & Fragments.”