Death’s Comedy
November 10, 2020
Death’s a comedic landslip
Hand-scripted in black-letter matching grievous mourning cards
Burial’s the departing door’s disposal
Adios, au revoir? Auf Wiedersehn?
Nor never again
On this patch as the clods of God’s odd universe; as
Gags that go drunk in the night, despite of pight’s illumination
The rite is sped; it’s inhumation
Dismissing all
Carpets rolled up, and curtains’ certainty accomplished
The car goes for overhaul by vocal overalls clad in caps
Ciphers whose views, the clues to, you choose not to map.
As one named driver the lone survivor upon the evening watch
Dark is the mask of mystery
A state of affairs impairs – you can’t see
Beyond there’s sunrise supplies a looked for future
And’s speculated on, as if a given feature
A ceremonial half-subliminal fact of nature
Day, day, day, day, day.
Night
Comes in one morning when aurora’s dawning over thanatos
A line is forming to catch a cab to ouranos
By your side, should there be, a touring guide, like Virgilus
Per omnibus
This is an ancient death; a fallen leaf denuded of the tree
There in the garden sported fair, decorously
But being looked on no more, no longer an actuality
Empathetically
The course of whims blow change; so arrange themselves nefariously
Over the clover we tread; no dread; imperiously
Company for-the-times, are our all-time certainties
Letting in leet thalassa waters, murmured imperviously
Swarming steadfastly
Feeding the mills, which turn the wheels revolve globed planets
Providing spring daffodils, and fish for standing-sentry gannets
And rides on the broadside paddles, spanking out a liquid ballet
New generation
Rereading of Newton’s Laws maintains a conservation
A loss achieves a gain; as once becomes amain; and ever bests all-time
So collide with demise, recess, and rest your eyes, cadaver,
Met meek with light surprise