Don't write me a poem when I'm dead

**Mingo** · 02-10-2013, 10:23 PM

Hey - its the off season - and I'm getting old. ;)

Don’t write me a poem when I’m dead

Have a long laugh – take a nice nap.
Think of something rad, or bake a loaf of bread.
Scream your way through a rollercoaster ride
But, don’t write me a poem when I’m dead.

Pretend you can sing – move your feet to a jig.
Tell a dirty joke - punctuated it - with a meaningful wink.
Hike along a mountain trail and break into a yodel,
Then kick your blades into a ruckus at the local skating rink.

Tell jokes about me on the amateur night stage;
Pretend I was witty and rodeo clownish fun
Then, moon the congregation at the local church
And swear that’s what I wished to have done.

Just don’t write me a poem when I’m dead
Don’t sum me up with a two bit rhyme.
Don’t worry about the future of my soul -
And please don’t opine on my eternal clime.

Do the Hokey Pokey to get me to my grave.
Ceremoniously burn my clothes in an industrial drum.
Furnish bag pipes to mourners with too much wind
And dance like Indian Medicine Men in a rugby scrum.

Raise some Hell with the excuse of my demise
Just don’t write me a poem by beating a horse dead,
But, when it comes to grinding out the poetic lifting
Be thankful - when you get to that – it was me instead.

2/10/13
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