Chapbook for the Recently Deceased
A witty, wide-reaching, entertaining and straight-out strange collection of poems that are as described: for the recently deceased, but as a considered class with practical issues, rather than specific individuals.
A portion of “Caveat of Being the Recently Deceased”:
however, there will be storms,/ roiling like churning stomachs;/ ensuing pangs of now-ness./
Teeth will become/
lost with keys and memory;/ you might lunch with bums;/ surely you /
will lunge with lungs….