Funeral Culture Poems

Bury me no more
As I've put up a funeral in my head
And engraved the words I want to say and can't, 
in the concrete tombstone


If...

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These are modern English translations of ancient Egyptian Harper's songs. 

Harper's Song: Tomb of Djehutiemheb
translation by Michael R. Burch

The sky is opened for you,
the earth...

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Friends,
Trumpians,
EcoFeminists

We gather here
to no longer hear divisions
across a win/lose 
zero-sum aisle
so we can see revisions
within a win/win
nonzero-exponential
future free of buried guile.

Green flowing fullness
no longer mourned
for...

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Let's cast these words at a funeral like shards in clay pots
like hard sounds n bright noise of memories of this lot 

of feelings real...

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We don't discuss death
Civilized folk use funeral parlors
Funeral at home? Why on earth
We're good, clean entrepreneurs

The next generation never learn
How death is life, too, recycling
Part...

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Not long ago when the summers seemed warmer and the winters were whiter. When the trees grew crown of leaves bright, a transparent green. Then...

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In the door 
in the house 
as it sits, dilapidated
the weeds tangles ruined floors
the door is a jar  
In the shadows
of a vacant room
Littered...

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This land of entitlement, 
entertainment and enterprise 
lost burnt broken...despised 
skeletal structures reaching 
griping, clutching, scraping the infernal sky.
arcane factories sit on horizons 
haunt like...

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Arcane Factories
Along the windswept wasteland
broken bones of humanity unimaginable 
a Tyranny in the mind's eye
bleak landscapes of industry churn
spires reaching to torch heaven,
huge towers of...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Panic mongers, hate mongers,
                  traffickers in groupthink. 
The...

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Visions, when spoken, are impaired.
                    ...

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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -...

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I've honored funeral mongers
for the chance to say their prayers.
And knelt in all their churches
for the lord to see who cares.

And taken what I've learned...

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My people love marching!
Attending rain dancing parades,
doing a bunch of fire-breathing talking
Little drummer boys and girls
playing foot soldier pretend grown up
Just defending the truth,
those marionette...

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