The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #70058   Message #1192940
Posted By: beardedbruce
24-May-04 - 02:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mudcat's Best Poet Contest
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat's Best Poet Contest
I died last Saturday:

                Words pierced my soul
                 at five-forty-two:
                My heart stopped beating;
                 voice ceased.
                 I slipped into a stupor
                    and then into death.

                By nine-twenty -eight rigor mortis
                 had set in.



                                                28 June 76