Shop Project

Shop Project

The trouble with finishing

my coffin is what’s next?

And where do I store it

or

is that a who question?

The irony is someone

else gets to decide how

or where to bury me.

          And    

just last week I learned

you don’t really have to buy

a coffin.  You can rent

one for a slight fee.

But

who would want to use

it next?  In the lining

would she find stray

bits of me, such as

a

fingernail or gray hairs

which are made of dead

cells anyway?  Do I really

want to end this project

or

start something less grave?

Maybe a knick knack to put

on a shelf someone else

will have to dust off

after

my dust to dust returns.

                              —Donnell Hunter

                                        18 February 2012