we show up in black for the funeral because hello we’ve seen the movies
shuffle our pamphlets
pose in stained light
sway (literal organ music)
ha ha, darling, amour
the tiny sandwiches are to die for!
to set this scene
thousands(!) of grieving girls
ballet flats, steam-pressed brows, fists clutching scrunched up snot tissues,
in the pews the chorus sniffles, rows and rows
an actor tries to cry, a person, a person, tries not to —
Cover Art: In the Beginning, by Adriano Marinazzo