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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.
