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White Funeral

White funeral:

Self to death-

Death to that deadly

Personal pronoun that

Rhymes not with me,

Or YOO, or Them, but

One of the two orbs by

Which we dimly

C.

 

Death to that cursed

Fish

That swims, always,

Always alone. By it

Self.

 

Hell, fish?

Sel fish.

Somebody ring the bell,

Fish.

 

White funeral.

Shed the skin.

Death, decay, diseased!

Shake it OFF.

Let the Old Man

Who lives as the gleam

Of our "I"s

 

Selfish swim

Alone in an aquarium

Sea of variety, seeing

None but their own

Reflection in the much

Much bigger eyes of

Prey opening eating

Swallowing little

Selfish whole.

 

Why did the little

Fishy die?

Because it thought it was

The lonely fish in the sea.

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ted-scheck
54 / M / American
Published
Jun 23, 2014
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