Advice on Avoiding Pedestals
Be sure to avoid all bandwagons
and pedestals my dear,
at all costs and your own peril ..
Don’t worry though,
despite my burning up like this ..
Should I die tonight,
you can bet on all of my bones,
I won’t go quietly ..
But screaming and kicking with
all of my might ..
I refuse to be that kind of victim ..
I mean a quiet one,
and to become less than nothing
but a small collection
of buried old bones, or white ash,
stuck in a bowl
and displayed, beneath a marital
bed or indeed upon
a mantelshelf somewhere quietly
gathering familial dust
with no hope of resuming any of
my former unfulfilled
hopes and quietly unacquired glories ..
So just to be sure then,
avoid bandwagons and all of those
associated pedestals
en route and at all costs, since they
serve no true useful
purpose on this sad old earth of ours ..