Having Fun With Death
The table was ready, soon the guests would be there,
The list was incomplete as few had remembered to RSV Peep.
First were Maester Nigrum of House Mortem and Giolamo of House Pital.
Then two guests brand new, Computus of Virus with his sister Biologicum.
Successful siblings tis said, she with over one hundred and four degrees and he with a permanent gig with Hertz.
Names of the famous were evoked to good health; Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Bellini it’s true.
Arnold Palmer, John Daley, and Shirley Temple too,
Ginger Rodgers was best, though she missed Fred’s stare.
Death is death, when and how doesn’t matter, except to jesters and pollsters.
Think what I say isn’t true? Then ask Jackie if she enjoyed the parade or Mary the play?
When cancer finds a temporary host; how many pop the cork and make a toast?
That Alzheimer’s eats, devouring life’s memories, how many visit the local haberdashery?
Please God, forgive us those notions.
Padre Sarducci was master of the table, set with foods and succulents galore.
Bread of green, with ham and eggs in between, chicken a la raw along with beef Tatar,
When people die, we sigh and think, “Thank God it wasn’t me.”
All waited with breath abated, as they sat in their chairs, electricity charging the air,
In the hopes that short would be their prayer.
Padre Sarducci stood to review the revue;
“Does God or the Devil care more when creatures are killed?
Angel of mercy or that of death, neither invented Kevorkian’s scarf.
Death is a virus, yet is not life its leading cause?
Now for the greatest virus of all, that of the heart and love,
There is no cure, salve or pill.
It deprives you of sleep, food, and wisdom.
Many have said that love is blind, yet deaf and dumb, should be included as well.
Some act the fool, others act the poet, and we all act the saint, despite the fact, we ain't.
We’ve died and killed for it and due to it; we’ve stolen and begged, truth be its greatest feature.
Rivers of tears, salty and sweet; songs aplenty, aired in its honor
No doctors Rx, no Buddha’s words to soothe; do we really seek a cure?
Of silence, is that a cancer that grows,
Or only the wisdom of thought expressed, to show what we know?
Wisdom may come through fool and by sage, though one is always locked in a cage.
It’s man, who created what were assembled here for,
That laughter is the best medicine, for what ails us all.”