yes yes yes.
a sequel, Bill, might be your instructions for your own
last line ‘we’ should be ‘us’ - if you won’t hold it against I for a correctness which begins to sound old-fashioned
Max
On 17 Jun 2014, at 9:53 pm, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> modern funerals
>
> applause in the chapel follows
> endearments from family members
>
> tacky 'representative' hits accompany
> exhaustive sequences of projected photos
>
> overflow rooms offer more screens
> if you can't make or don't warrant a pew position
>
> a life is 'celebrated'
> sadness consigned to back burner
>
> Bundling out platitudes by the cliche
> a smooth-voiced disc jockey in a suit mc's
>
> 'through the good times and the bad'
> as if many times were not stock neutral
>
> and yet something of the dead one emerges
> squeezed out between the forced rhymes
>
> of ditties composed with love if not skill
> delivered by shaken, shaky voices
>
> a presence hovers absently over
> we second-rate survivors
>
> bw
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