Ghosts Are Better Guests Than Hosts
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Ghosts are Better Guests Than Hosts
David J Walker
The ghosts are better guests
Than hosts
as they never dress for
the best occasions
Of course, they are invited to
Join us as the most naked among us
Leading us in translucent prayers and such
Around the round chrome and Formica kitchen table
After all,
ghosts take up so little room
And are not easily scared away
They usually know the worst jokes
And the best gossip of the day
They speak to our children
As if they had known them in
The unseen sometime before
life began
The bad ghosts
Lost their chance
to pick a bone with
someone they’ve known in
life past when out of breath
for the last time an angry death
impassioned and unintended
But
They are family and friend
On the mend
On the other side of life
Copyright © David Walker | Year Posted 2021
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