The Magnificence of Memento Mori

I was an undertaker---

nothing more

and nothing less

They tell you when you get older to prepare for the worst

the silence

the touch---and go---and touch---and go

But fear leads to misdiagnosis

and an unfortunate malaise

that makes us all less---

of that

Perhaps a giver was more my kind

up---

my alley---

After all---

it's not coincidence that looking in the mirror made all the difference

in the illusion

or did it?

Vanity's only fair---

and Gilbert peering back at the line of us in the parlor

saying---

Next!