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BEING DEAD

Being dead
Is not an event.
There is no one
Handing out lollipops at the door.
As spectator sports go,
This one sucks,
Big time.
Being dead
Is a big blanding:
Everything tastes the same.
Once you've snuffed it
Bananas are neither ripe nor unripe.
Bananas are concept-negated,
A big gone,
Spooked off to Nowheresville,
Deleted.
And chocolate?
You can forget about chocolate.
Don't get no chocolate-flavored sprinkles on your cornflakes,
Not when you're dead.
Don't get no cornflakes.
Being dead
Attracts less than the minimum wage.
You thought this was a promotion?
Sorry, you were sold
A bill of goods.
Being dead
Lasts for eternity
But the age of the short poem
Is here
And our time is done.

Copyright © 2006 Hugh Cook

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