Tag: Death

• Just Burial

  Unfortunately we’re booked up, sold out –
  all the major graveyards and burial grounds,
  odd patches of land and even driveways
  people used to book on our app
  are resting places of people squashed together
  like faded burgundy landfill coffee cups.
  In fact, ‘Just Burial’ has gone into liquidation.
  Where we used to charge the earth
  we’re undercut by conglomerates of ash.
  They keep your memorial in the cloud
  just as safe as if you were in the ground.
  No fragments to reassemble on ascension,
  no odyssey of the skull, but a 64-bit virtual mansion
  forms the many rooms of our father’s house.

  August 30, 2025

  Afterlife, Death, Poetry

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