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
- Channel Crossing by Sylvia Plath
- Moonrise by Sylvia Plath
- ‘They’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- Жан де Лафонтен – Третейский Судья, Брат милосердия и Пустынник
- Unruffled by Satish Verma
- Вероника Тушнова – Я одна тебя любить умею
- Владимир Корнилов – Собака подлеца
- Authorship by Rabindranath Tagore
- Song from Aella by Thomas Chatterton
- The Golden Age poem – Alfred Austin
- Epigram on a Country Laird (Cardoness) by Robert Burns
- Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank by Robert Burns
- John Anderson by Robert Burns
- The Lovely Maïd Ov Elwell Meäd by William Barnes
- To Byron poem – John Keats poems
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