You never know and you can never be too ready, or too unready enough
Your Death, yeah YOURS!
We’ve had people
we knew well
and also not nearly as well,
die in strange and sudden ways:
A relative,
heading down a steep stairway
to “check on the kittens;”
Our next door neighbor lady’s
sister’s husband
crashing his bike
into a tunnel wall,
those same neighbor’s next door
the man not his wife
telling his co-worker,
“Time to wrap-up for the day”
and hearing the guy
fall off the bottom rung
of the ladder he was coming down,
dead before he hit the floor
from a massive heart attack.
And you,
if you think about it
you know lots of people
you once knew
who became dead
very suddenly
and in some cases
almost comically,
although you can hardly ever
joke about it in good taste:
But what if one day you’re walking
down the sidewalk,
singing a happy tune
and munching a bag of delicious
Cheddar-Cheese flavored
Ruffles potato chips,
when suddenly from behind you
an overloaded potato truck
with Idaho license plates
(“Famous potatoes,”
is the proud state motto
printed on every plate)
jumped the curb
and squished the be-Jesus outta ya?
You think
anyone would ever think or talk
about anything else you ever did
after something as hilarious
as that happened?
So anyway,
have a nice day.
