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Premium Member Secret of the Mortician
The Secret of the Mortician

Dead, but I got eyes
Prepares my body at the morgue
Opens the chest
Drains the blood from its nudity
Admires my body before it...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mortician, corruption, dark, death, funeral,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Creepo Mortician Who Loved the Graveyard Shift
The lighting - it was over-bright
above the table where she lay,
her skin dead cold but lovely white.
The lighting -it was over-bright,
He loved work best alone...

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Categories: mortician, addiction,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member My Local Mortician
"I tie the shoelaces together on my dead," says my local mortician, 
"because if a zombie apocalypse were ever to happen,
 it will most certainly...

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Categories: mortician, death, people,
Form: Rhyme
Battle Rap
Battle Rap


...poet in da house...


Now have a listen, for I’ll be a kissing…I’m on a mission
And you’ll be a pissing your hemolysin…a smelly emission
My words...

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Categories: mortician, fun, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Night Shoes--
Mama and them, took us aside
When we cried
She wiped our eyes

She grandma and Auntie
Bathed and feed us
Took us to church learnt us bout' JESUS

And when...

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Categories: mortician, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, caregiving,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Few Words About Vanity
Sooner or later, aging betrays us
and vanity, supposedly, saves us.
Men included but women especially
fall prey to its superficiality
with measures used no better than
the least skilled...

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Categories: mortician, vanity,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member What a Way To Go
Of course it would involve making love
If I had to choose the way that I would die
Fornicating until my heart gives out
Is something I might...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mortician, funny, heart, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Call Girl of Thulhu
Call girl of Thulhu? 
I smiled at the voice at the end of the phone.
Not been in action for many years, but had a keenness...

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Categories: mortician, woman, women,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member In This Box
I have asked the mortician to close my box
For in this box lies only the shell you knew
The shell of who I used to be...

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Categories: mortician, faith, family, love, heaven,
Form: Bio
Stiff Attention, For Contest
Bart Bren was a novice politician      
Who was fair at stating his position.    
But folk who wouldn't...

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Categories: mortician, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member More Epitaphs Observed At Evergreen Cemetery
Cecil the Magician knew a heap of tricks,
But, alas, couldn't get himself out of this fix!

Carl was laid to rest for his eternal snooze,
Brought about...

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Categories: mortician, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Class Reunion
A football star with super speed,
Our prom king, Kyle, has gone to seed.
No longer likely to succeed,
He's out of work and hooked on weed.

Behind you's...

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Categories: mortician, change, high school, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Just Hanging Around
Once in the ghost town they called rotgut
Seen mortician dancing dead mans strut
Six shooter brought Slim down
Black smith hurried left town
Guess hang by boots then...

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Categories: mortician, fantasy, children, giggle, life,
Form: Limerick
Guess Who
One evening, a male mortician died inside the funeral parlor that he owns.  The parlor has been operating for ten years inside a big...

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Categories: mortician, mystery,
Form: Prose
Silent-Scream
It is asked what happens after death,
what is your fate after final breath?
I am cursed as one who knows,
for I am now settled in repose.

Although...

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Categories: mortician, dark, horror, scary,
Form: Rhyme

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