too eager, the mortician, to exercise his art,
not slowing to check breath or heart
before pronouncing his slumbering child’s term:
where gelatin and jade could not preserve Innocence’s stare,
Chemical would insure the fix and hold of Age’s cynical glare.
Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 9:12 AM UTC
too eager, the mortician, to exercise his art,
not slowing to check breath or heart
before pronouncing his slumbering child’s term:
where gelatin and jade could not preserve Innocence’s stare,
Chemical would insure the fix and hold of Age’s cynical glare.