Death Is Coming – Freewrite Poetry

i. Death is coming to tea: Are you prepared?

Have you

• washed and dried the dishes?
• cleared the counter?
• purchased biscuits?

ii. Death is coming to tea: Is it by invitation?

Or, has Death snuck
a notice of arrival in your inbox,
without a by-your-leave?

Perhaps someone else requested the visit?

Maybe

• an enemy
• an ex-girlfriend
• a former employer

Even so, have you purchased biscuits?

iii. Death is coming to tea: Can it be stopped?

Perhaps if you clean up your act?
Quit

• smoking
• drinking
• having sex with strangers

(Do you want to clean up your act?)

Even so, the answer is no.

iv. Interlude

Perhaps Death is a release of travail.
Yes, it's always a release of travail.

Are you ready to give in?

v. Death is coming to tea: We all know it.

We all pretend it isn't.

We worry about things

• the rent (or mortgage)
• the job (or no job)
• the leader of the free world

None of it matters. Death is coming.
Paying bills/voting won't stop it.

Do we somehow believe we can stop it?

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