- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Memento Mori
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Why is it, Morrie, nowadays,
there's no "Have a Happy Deathday"
Hallmark card for those who say
they live for heaven's sake?
A priori the rest of us
want birthday cake and eat it too
until we feel a stomachache
and hope it's just the flu,
but then we hope or pray,
when the pain travels wider,
Eve who said she met the Snake
was drinking too much cider.
But if not, sure as hell
we'll cower in some corner
where we swear to God or naught
we'll change our ways tomorrow.
- COMMENTS
UnderYourSpellalmost 13 years agoAt last after wading through the rest I finally find someone who can write poetry
twelveoonealmost 13 years agoNow what I like (as if anyone cares) is what you did with the last line. It ends on an element of triteness, but falls out of rhyme (calling attention to it) and plays well against the first stanza (reprising Hallmark cards), and the sound of the first line. Risky, in the fact it may be missed.
I saw no one mentioned it yet in NPR. I will if no one else does. I am hoping...
