Thanks for planning my funeral in
advance, I mean it. You probably don’t know
how much it means to me
that you care about showing my face in a clear glass coffin
to people who knew me
and may or may not have loved me.
A minor suggestion, though: the number of white roses
you said to lay on my grave was twelve. Can’t
we go with eleven red, one pink, no white?
I don’t know, red is better. Red is brighter.
Unless you prefer white to colors.
Do whatever you will, hold – hold on and give me a moment
to breathe. I don’t like the quote
you chose. I don’t like any of the quotes
you chose to go on my headstone.
I don’t like any of the quotes I chose to go on my headstone, though,
so it may as well be something picked out
by someone who will actually see them.