An Orthodox friend told me
some frumme Jews have holes
drilled into their coffins
to share their new housing
with worms. Whatever is
breaks down. It is not
seemly for the believer
to imagine otherwise--
I ponder this while listening
to dreadful piped-in music
in a room of stacked vaults.
A newly chiseled date upon
my friend's tomb--He would
have chosen a box with holes
of simple wood--You gotta get
me outta here--Just kidding--
Life is good; if you love as
water flows, death's also good:
somehow know a cosmic heart
transcends desiccation.
Thomas Dorsett
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