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Will You Be in the Body-Bag Next to Me?
Will you be in the body-bag next to me?
Crowed into a refrigerated truck
Bumping along the crematorium road
Kept frozen until removed for cooking
This Side Up
The sides of the truck might advertise ice cream
Or maybe the back door will be labelled “FISH”
The living will take photographs for the news
And for the schoolbooks children will ignore
May Have Passed Through Machinery Used to Process Nuts
When you and I, beloved, have ceased to be
Will you be in the body-bag next to me?
Gluten Free
When I came home
from Viet-Nam I thought I’d never again have to consider body-bags.
4 comments:
Geez Lawrence. Will there be enough body bags? Should we maybe be making those at home to help out with the grisly chore? What to do? How's the death toll down your way? I haven't been keeping up with the news. Are you practicing proper hand washing hygiene and social distancing? I have to go to work through this, and there's a shortage of masks and protective equipment. We are shut down, but loads of people are out and about like there's nothing going on. Grim.
I will certainly put on an extra prayer for your safety.
Except for the weekly grocery and mail run into town I'm in isolation. There is only one reported case in my rural county and I don't know anyone who is suffering the disease. My volunteer activities were among the first to close, and so I am unable to contribute in any way. I'm just being good!
Thank you, I hope you've got some weight with God. Stay safe my friend.
And you.
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