My funeral. As seen in a premonition. c/c?

I have a gun.
I don't have
to suffer
this depression.
Suicide is illegal.
I've usually
obeyed the law.
Well, put my corpse
in a cell.

I made myself
laugh, a little.
Good for me.

I can visualize
my own funeral--
an eighteen gun
salute because one
dropped his gun
in the mud.
That's better
than none.

I'm still not dead.
My carefully folded
flag shows the
insulting red.

The front-end
loader is the
guest of honor.
It has it's own
morbid salute.
It's rusted bucket-
teeth raised high
used to be
a lovely orange-
yellow before
it cannabalized the
cold hard ground.

The gutteral
motor has it's own
sweet scriptural sound--
an oiled-up dirge,
and a creaky requiem
pleasing those
with long ears.

I'm dragged for
a twenty foot
procession by my
wonderful pets
with little yellow
bows around their
uncomfortable necks.

They drag me in
The hole and kick
In a little dirt
With their hind legs.
The weight
of earth is a
welcome blanket
I'll never sleep
so good at home.
 
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