The Undertaker's Lament by Charlotte De'Ath

i like to do it with my elevenses

                            i like to do it with my afternoon tea

                                                                           and a digestive biscuit

                   mostly i like to do it

                                     late at night

                                                                 in the moon light

         when the bats are flying past my window

         when the owl is calling out

                                     making owl type sounds

                                               best of all

i like to do it in winter

         when a wind is howling

         when the trees’ bare branches

                                     are scratching at my window

                                               to come inside

                                     and warm the shivers                      from their timbers

i like to do it then

                            tuck the dead into their bed

                                                                 into their coffin for their final sleep

                                                        may they all rest in peace

                                     but i don’t get paid enough

                            to keep my family in the fashion they deserve

                                     the dying trade is  …           well dying

                            now cremation is all the verve

         so i take photographs

                   of their genitals

                            and sell them to

                                     necrophilliacs

                                               who seem very grateful

                            and sometimes … with the good looking ones

                                     pose them in certain positions

                                               stiff

                                                                 dead porn

                                               is a lucrative business

                            live fast      die young          be a beautiful corpse

                                                           PLEASE