Miles Burrows
Shroud, Sir.
control your shroud sir, control your shroud
and do not weep so loud: others can hear.
flapping your cerements is not allowed.
the cemetery already holds a crowd
and you had time enough for your career:
control your shroud sir, control your shroud.
your recitation of “death be not proud”
belonged to its occasion, but not here:
flapping your cerements is not allowed.
the angelic voice disturbs the electron cloud
and god adjusts the deaf aid in his ear:
control your shroud sin, control your shroud.
if space is curved into a hoop and bowed
as any old man’s spine, it’s pretty clean
flapping your cerements is not allowed.
others have passed their finals: you have ploughed
your bedroom farce into its peripateia:
control your shroud sin, control your shroud:
flapping your cerements is not allowed.
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