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Skin in the Game
by Sage Sweetwater → (All Poetry by Sage Sweetwater)
Monday, September 5, 2022    Rated "PG13" by the Author.
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Skin in the Game

 
Skin in 
The game
With no words
 
Mortality
Buries a
Preacher
A priest
A church
Organist
An entire
Congregation
Vagrants
Wastrels
Idlers
Littered 
With those
Godly two-fold
Printed lists of
Pallbearers missing
A Psalm eulogizing
The deads funeral
Compliments of the
Jehovah's but irrelevant
 
The chaplain
Silent on pre-disposal
Of the ashes fresh from
The prison crematory the
Urns anointed with Rose of 
Sharon in contrast with the 
Cigarette cartons of Lucky Strikes 
Back in the day targeted packages
Tucked in rolled-up T-shirt sleeves
James Dean memorabilia prison
Contraband
 
The Anti-Christ
Rolls the asphalt
Given credit where
Credit is due—666
On Lucifer's hearse rear
License plate your number
Is up
 
La Brea
Tar Pits
Where the
Crude oil
Seeps
Methane gas
Bubbles boil
Stirring Lucifer's
Cauldron
The Pitters
Cremated
We were
Underestimated
You are decimated
Kill one in
Every ten
Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
Ineligible for
Resurrection
Cremated 
 
The casket
Closes
The urns emptied
Collective ashes
Dumped
 
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 Reviews of "Skin in the Game"
Reviewed by audrine max
Reviewed on September 6, 2022
your words again took me on a journey, Sage. with you, poetry is never ordinary. the leopard prints on your images are also becoming intriguing. thank you for this wonderful piece.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on September 6, 2022
Now that's a death dirge! I don't want no stinking resurrection. But I sure want a fiery cremation where my ashes don't take up prime urban real estate until eventually when those marble monuments weather and no longer can be read. When the diggers move all the bodies to some appropriate dumpsite so the new building can go on for the space city of the future. Where all bodies henceforth are dropped from outer space into the atmosphere to burn up and sprinkle pixie dust throughout the earth for all nature to love and grow.

Ron


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