Alexa Laing-Moore
funeral
funeral
a day late, or more
Dear sir.
Today, I mourn.
I’ll don my black veil
And my small lace gloves.
Won’t show my face in the street
For ninety long days.
You should have sent
Out the funeral invitations
At the time of death.
This belated greif
Is both bad timing
And poor etiquette.
Because the post arrived
Too late for the date.
And by the time
I received the news,
Your corpse had ensnared
Most vicious maggots.