My Body

For convenience’s sake
A woman
Screams obdurately,
“This is my body”

Someone else said it first
At dinner
Sipping quietly,
“This is my body”

 Who will put an inconvenient life to death?
“You must die so I can live… more easily.”

There is no greater love than this.
“I must die so you can live… eternally.”

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“Here were a decent and godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road.
And a thousand lost golf balls.”

— T.S. Eliot