 | What a Way to GoMonday, January 21st, 2008 |
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Notice from the Sweet Chariot Funeral Parlor
Marilyn L. Taylor
Due to predicted overcrowding in our
cemeteries, a new service is available
which will see to packing and storing
one’s remains in a space capsule for
eventual launching into Earth’s orbit.
–Discover Magazine
Dear Friend: we
Are operating at capacity
and cannot
supply a green and grassy spot
for your tomb,
as there is no more room.
Instead, you are invited to entrust
your dust
To our space-age morticians, who seal
in stainless steel
(thanks to post-Newtonian science)
our clients.
Whereupon you
(and all your shiny loved ones, too)
shall ascend
via chartered rocketship, to spend
eternity
very near where Heaven used to be.
***
Ms. Taylor’s website.
