Epitaphs

Death can’t talk to you;

the best it can do is leave notes and messages.

Before you die leave nothing unremarked,

set down the darkest dangerous thought.

Now witness literature in many years to come:

whole libraries stand fit to burst with shelves of paper graves.

Strolling through, you meet whole generations

as dead as six feet under,

but each providing testimony

that they also have known the absurdest thing of all.