Put the fun back in funeral
—on a bumper sticker
Death's no laughing matter.
Unless you're watching
a Monty Python marathon at four in the morning and
the power goes off cuz there's a really big storm
and ooh the danger but then the lights come back on
and you're safe and don't think about death so much
but maybe you forget to brush your teeth, well,
you don't forget you're just lackadaisical about it
but if you dwell on it maybe it would be a good
excuse, I mean dying, there's so much else to do.
Dr. Kervorkian is dead and by now I'm on my second
cup of coffee feeling really sapient and chipper
when you lean in for a kiss which is kinda weird
before breakfast but gotta love the bravissimo
of it all so I wanna write a proper poem on Frank
O'Hara's birthday something green-blue and lush
just the way he never forgot Rachmaninoff
and do you wonder if there's enough oxygen in here
well I suppose it's better than being on the space
shuttle somehow but come November it's down
to good ol' Mexico for Día de los Muertos
and you do your best Jimi Hendrix on red
guitar I'm rooting for you all the way and so on
Terry .....starts singing always look on the bright side
or remember some fragment of Nietzsche Q
and it's all fireworks and mariachis, roasted marshmallows,
and beer.
