.

1

he is no longer there

but she calls out his name

and then waits

to see if his favourite chair

will move by itself

 

2

I wish to die

way ahead of you

that way I’ll know

someone will be there

to pay the burial fees

 

3

even today

I think of my two dead sons

only when my heart

has turned to earth again

will they be buried

 

4

death poems …

we die a little death

each borrowed day

yet live again because

we have to pay

 

5

sometimes a death

will have more meaning

after a life well lived

said the cockroach after

getting crushed by a shoe

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