"Ballad of Birmingham" Before You Read

I was in my house, girls 103, in my room when I got a phone call from one of my friends. She told me that one of our friends hanged himself. At first I didn't believe it, so I hanged up. I got a phone call from the mother and she told me the same thing. At that moment My body dropped to the floor and I was crying. He was one of my closest friends. One of my last closest friends. I was walking outside trying to calm down but I couldn't. When they did an open casket, I went. The parents wanted me to say a speech, so I did. The following day all of his close friends and family went to bury him. It was one of my worst yet horrifying day of my life.