Disingenuousness
by Mark R Slaughter
Here lies another box for nature,
Carbon ready;
Black to eyes down here,
Where death is at its job.
Up there you’ll hear a rhythmic sob
Or two from living yet-to-dies –
A humming lacrimoso –
It all but cleans the eyes:
Forget it –
The dismal show of grief –
Life is only chemistry –
Our stay is only brief.
It’s we who hype it up!
Diaphragms jerk again;
The jet monotone of hearses
Feeds the disingenuousness
Of undertakers –
They seem to stare at something up ahead –
For them, it’s in the blood,
To taxi off the dead.
Copyright ©: Mark R Slaughter
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Song—A Man’s a Man for a’ that by Robert Burns
- The Fault of It poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Маяковский – За 10 месяцев 1920 года… (РОСТА №748)
- A Gemini’s Hurt by Stephen Allen
- Blemishes by Satish Verma
- Наум Коржавин – Еж и Заяц
- The Last Laugh poem – John Betjeman poems
- The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Robert Burns: Lines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness.: Written with a Pencil on the Spot.
- Bellinglise
- The Essay on Agriculture by Abraham Cowley
- The Quest XII (Vocation) by W H Auden
- Slag by Mark Base
- Mine and Thine by William Morris
- Blithe Dreams Arise To Greet Us by William Ernest Henley
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
