Cliff Notes For a Corpse
This eulogy is just ragged cliff notes
to sum up his eighty two years
but only the happy tones are used..
not a word about
the drinking rages
the black and blue children
that affair with the babysitter
the push down the pregnant stairs.
The many sudden clacks and clangs
those strange pangs in the darkness-
Today-
It's only the happy stuff being spewed
the wonderful puffs of funeral parlor smoke
the fabric of a superhero unveiled
but many of us sitting here know the truth
he was no superhero-
he was a super monster-
A complete waste of formaldehyde.
So, we wait patiently
for this verbal charade to burn itself out.
Copyright © Anthony Biaanco | Year Posted 2020
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