WALL TROPHY

Oh don't cremate me
oh my darlin'
just place me
in the den,
mount my head
over the TV set
like a
trophy specimen

Displayed
upon the knotty pine
beside the fowl
and deer,
trophies all
hung on the wall
recalled without
a tear

Frozen in
eternal stare
just like those other
bucks,
you can explain
to passersby
just why it is
I'm stuffed

When people ask you
what on earth?
what animal
is that?
You can explain
it's just your Ex
killed with a
baseball bat

Don't be ashamed
I'm on display
you're in
for a surprise,
I look much better
being stuffed
then when
I was alive.


© d.knape
April 18, 2017