02-01-2016, 06:54 AM
Not sure what to do with this. It came out raw.
Will and Testament
Dad never wanted
to be cremated.
Just don’t burn me, he’d say.
The facts were he was dead
and never planned anything.
My ex wants to be put in a wall.
I don’t know the details
but I’m sure my daughter is good for it.
Me?
I think I’d like to be a tree.
But I was thinking of you, Leslie,
while driving past Lake Gibson
this frozen Sunday
after a night of contrived forgetting;
I was thinking of you.
No one asks to have their limbs encased
in a concrete block
and their torso
encased in another.
No one plans for that.
There are days when we die
by varying degrees
and that day was one.
None of us knows what to do next.
Will and Testament
Dad never wanted
to be cremated.
Just don’t burn me, he’d say.
The facts were he was dead
and never planned anything.
My ex wants to be put in a wall.
I don’t know the details
but I’m sure my daughter is good for it.
Me?
I think I’d like to be a tree.
But I was thinking of you, Leslie,
while driving past Lake Gibson
this frozen Sunday
after a night of contrived forgetting;
I was thinking of you.
No one asks to have their limbs encased
in a concrete block
and their torso
encased in another.
No one plans for that.
There are days when we die
by varying degrees
and that day was one.
None of us knows what to do next.