“WE ALL GON DIE!”

poetry

(Dedicated to all of us and our many billion backs that need scratched)

WE ALL GON DIE!
Yeah yeah, I know I
sound alarmist but I’m
just tryna point out
one day all our flesh
gon be gone from here.
That thing we call
decomposition, yeah it
gon happen to all of us.
But we’ll die don’t
mean we doomed. For
every action there is
an equal and opposite
reaction.
So yeah, let’s go
ahead and scratch
Death’s back a billion
times over cos
guess what? Early this
morn I heard Eternal
Life say the favor
need returned, and
*hoot* do we got a
whole lotta backs
that need scratched!

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Originally published in The Dedicadas: A Chapbook