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Mocking the Dead

Mocking the dead has no rules We can play the dead for fools Wile away all those hours and days Debating the dead's unlearned ways We are so much more comms efficient The old ways of socialising were deficient Why make stuff like they used to back then The dead didn't have time for a box set or 10 The dead are so dumb, taking up space The living have it sussed, eradicate the human race They had their singalongs, we have our apps The dead really were a bunch of saps Though could it be that the dead did the living And I'm in a box that's small and unforgiving Convincing myself that I'm rather ahead But in fact I'm mocked by the lives of the dead

Copyright © | Year Posted 2023




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Date: 10/2/2023 6:19:00 PM
Terrific turn of reader expectation in the final 4 lines. Congratulations on a fine write most deserving of top recognition! Cheers Brian
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Date: 10/2/2023 9:57:00 PM
Thank you Brian, very kind
Date: 9/29/2023 12:45:00 PM
Enjoyed this! Congratulations!
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Date: 9/29/2023 1:07:00 PM
Thanks Kim
Date: 9/29/2023 11:08:00 AM
Thank you for writing for my contest. I really enjoyed your poem. Congratulations on your placement.. No one wants to be mocked dead or alive..
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Date: 9/29/2023 12:21:00 PM
Thank you SO
Date: 9/22/2023 6:23:00 PM
Love the tone and satire, here, DD and the way you flipped the script at the end. My kind of poem!
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Date: 9/22/2023 10:40:00 PM
Thanks John, I wasn't going to enter this but saw a few others and realised it could be somewhat light hearted, so just had a quick go. Thank you - glad it appealed :)

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