Death and Transchiggeration

[dukealien]

At first, I thought I would reply with Strauss's "Death and Transfiguration", but then that would be a little too on-the-nose. Besides, this one's much more affecting, at least in my opinion:

Death and Transchiggeration Yep, swell title. Hmm... same basis, though vastly different theme: "Todd und Verklaerung"?

Crushed a tiny biting bug
between my fingers -
felt the itch,
saw black pinhead
which disintegrated.
Let her suck her picoliter
in bug heaven from
some willing angel, or
in Hell, a microdemon, 
from the forearm
of some hopeless wretch,
not mine.
"Let her suck her picoliter in bug heaven from some willing angel, or in Hell, a microdemon, from the forearm of some hopeless wretch, not mine." The sentence reads a little too loopy for me. Maybe just remove the hell lines, to highlight the irony: "[b]in bug heaven from / 
some willing angel, from / 
the forearm of some hopeless / 
wretch -- not mine." 
or even
"in bug heaven from / 
some willing angel, / 
from the forearm / 
of some hopeless wretch -- / 
not mine."

*sigh*  OK, the title's the best part.  Duly noted.

But abandoning the Hell part would be to evade my role as psychopomp - what's the point of a spirit guide with no alternatives to offer?

Lovely music, listened to it while viewing Blake's "Ghost of a Flea" (surprised none of the erudite respondents mentioned that work).  Makes a suitably disturbing mixed-media impression, IMHO.

@Leanne - "Psychopomp" - useful word, had to look it up.  It does, however, put one in mind of the Master of Robes committing serial murders on his day off.[/b]