“I smell something in the weeds”
Sez Uncle History
“It ain’t death
But death adjacent”
Stink
Of rotting books
Or an old man’s
Hairpiece
He thinks
And patting
His pocket
He finds
He’s lost his ticket
To the underworld
He’s carried it for
A thousand years
He’s even
Touched it to his lips—
(Revenant smooch
Charon’s gift)
“Oh well” he thinks
“Whoever finds it
Will discover
The first day of death
Is the hardest”
Planet of the Blind 