Bodies With Names
Bodies With Names
After objectively reading my obituary
How much weight might mine carry
Carefully being compared with yours
Seen by my eyes that eventually endures.
A wily woman was born with two left feet
And in a hallowed hall we both did meet
But then me being so shy as was only I
Presumably, probably had passed her by.
Relinquished a jester with an obscenity
When I was singing "Oh say can you see,"
On a cell phone, they received a call
And before flag would not stand tall.
In heaven heard that they made a blunder
On earth they had put wrong body under
God said that if in cemetery you are in
Don't mix bodies with names ever again.
James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran
Copyright © James Horn | Year Posted 2015
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