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Arial Burial

take my ashes 
throw them to
the wind where
they may be
spirited away

taken places
randomly took
take a look and
see where the
rambling winds

have taken me

from here to
Timbuktu i
blew in on
a noreaster
but further

south i was
being sucked
up by a French
maid's vacuum
which whom i

simply replied
c'est la vie but
part of me went
straight to the
stratosphere

and landed me
on a snowflake
at Everest's peak
where i would
never melt and

meld back into
life's stream 
yet another ash 
oppositly in Egypt
found fellowship 

with the ka of a milk
bathed beauty who
said she knew me
in another life time
but then time and

time again mostly
my scattered ashes
touched down as if
one small step for
man and landed a

piece of me so
peacefully in
seemingly every
day places 
placing me

in ashtrays and
even on my Muse's
car windshield
but before she
could use her

fluid and wipers
up ran a man with
a dirty water bucket
and spit while wielding 
as he held it

a squeegee hammer
as if to attack her
window she screamed
not knowing not or
giving a rat's

ash
about me
she realized
that she had
though i had no

change

Copyright © Jeff Connelly

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