Rolling Cigar Casket
Prose poetry
His coffin not covered by fog, but
Cigarette stubs and smog of ashes,
What was once hard ground
Has become a boiling, dilapidated bog
The humid air full with miasmic slander,
Wrought with gaseous words
Like the smell, not too dissimilar
Of lingering skunk excrement
Whether it was the body that’s life was leaking
Or them was unsure but
Their actions masterfully conceal their
Dirt and soiled wicked desires,
They were weeping, now
They are solemnly—so very solemnly, inhaling cigars
“A shame" they say, " without him the Company will be a little less endurable"
There were umbrellas, but were soon gone
Cigars heeled into the ground and stocked up
Like a sapling, this sapling burning
Head to stem
And over this great man he rests,
Choking, surrounded not by love ,
But a reminder
Of the life he had once succumbed to
And in his grave he is rolling,
Under dried cement,
Against his Cuban Cigars
And no one seemed to notice
It had been struck aflame
Now his whole casket underground
Was jostling, roaring ,rolling, and on fire,
And the Earth that day
Smoked a huge rolling cigar casket
About the Creator
Octovo Libra
Instagram: @libracymbaspoems
Twitter : @libracymbalspoems
And my poetry Hell Is Like A Dog Kennel and other poems
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