Friday, March 19, 2010

Only Publish This Poem When I’m Dead

by Chris Butler

When I imagine

that I’ve died,

I know exactly

what will be of me,

but what of death

can one envision?


Dark

dirt/

digging

worms,

and the endless mumblings

of lawnmowers over my ceiling

or the moaning of Sunday morning’s

mourning,


or pissed against the wind

and left to sit adrift

an ocean of whale carcasses

and swimmers’ urine,


I wish that you just don’t burn

my paper skin.


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