#1343 - things to do when you’re dead

 

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things to do when you’re dead

for godsbother, ghost writing

 

comb hair

brush teeth

pay bills

check balance

 

eyes tight

count to a hundred, keep on

 

clean out the bottom drawers

wash socks

 

even after myself

largely am, as you see

 

still pander to a whim

carry on

 

be wombat to the grave

 

swim walls

 

surrounded by my making now

 

watch the vultures

be a vampire

 

and when as if so bitten

 

not on your life

and over my dead

 

yet rant

 

now then known by heart

here’s a gust of pyre

 

the body is strange

we’ll have none of that

 

for some though it’s a long long queue

an obol for your afterthought

 

I’m somebody else’s afterlife too

 

make a note of this, make it a memoir

hecatomb

 

fall short of a further expectation

become a finite quantity

 

just as are the stars

and I, for firmament, am one

 

find a lost part later, much

 

pile up

be pickled

get embalmed

 

in mind’s eye this waiting room

 

dust

and later, the unravel

 

fall into disuse

there’s nothing that can’t be broken

 

take the Fortunatus’ trip

where you’ve been before

 

colour of bone

still we’re here to mend

 

how full of joy and wonder this

so every other life