Final Arrangements
This older couple was telling
Me about how they had already
Purchased their cemetery plot
Successful people, educated,
Had paid off all their loans
Pillars of some sub-average community
Don't get me wrong:
It’s the right thing to do
An act of dispassionate probity
Sparing mourning children
The undignified task
Of final arrangements
But I’ve already decided
It’s cremation for me; no one’s
Putting my corpse in the wet ground.
Being similarly disposed
Toward responsible stewardship
I know it’s time for me to pick a fire
Nothing too garishly infernal
A simple blaze with licking flames
Hot enough to ash my bones
1/9/23
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