'Killed by my father, married to my mother'

"My death was arranged by special plans in Heaven
And only occasioned comment by ten persons in Adams, Massachusetts. 
The best thing ever said about me
Was that I was deft at specifying trump. 
I was killed by my father
And married to my mother
But born too early to know what happened to me, 
And as I was an only child
I erected selfishness into a personal religion, 
Sat thinking forty years saying nothing.''

-- Opening of "A New England Bachelor,'' by Richard Eberhart