A literati once told me
the difference between a peasant
and a pheasant is only 'H'
I replied, the difference between
symbols and cymbals is known only
by 'a' literati 'ess,' you 'c'
~ as I crashed those cymbals in front of he
We had a difference of opinion on final wishes
I swing back and forth like a pendulum this is
because she said it is wrong to cremate
to destroy the body that God made
That even the lords body was buried
Why be baked like chicken curry?
I tentatively have a view on it
Was to not burden my kid
With my final resting place
Visits to my uneventful grave
Rather have folk celebrate
What person wants to be worm food?
Or the thought of loved ones wasting years too
Speaking to a headstone when it’s true
Rather have them do something more cool
Like go to a favorite purple place
Remember me there remember my ways
Not just visit my morbid grave
But go out and live life do not waste
But maybe she is correct
The body is a temple yes
Can it be so simple as she chose
Final wishes to be as a buried rose?
DIFFERENCE OF OPINION CONTEST
10/13/2021
SPONSOR SHREYA LN
I beg to differ with those romantics
who imagine a farm is like a zoo
They've never smelled a cow go moo
or cleaned a coop of chicken poo
It's easy to be in kind
cruelling self to denial.
Harder to step up, unboxed.
But why must you beg, aplogise
for stuffing your ego with struts,
standing up, off your knees;
self supported, doing your own stuff.
You imply the cruel
Based on an outcome
You fear to admit to.
Disclosing only your version
Of truth vs. fact.
Lies for damage limitation
Lead to fabricated trust.
Your theory of friendship’s
Compassion and kindness
Now reads like a satire.
The thoughtless consequences
Of your fairytales.
So you assume too much
And I beg to differ.
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