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I'll "confine" myself to this...
by White_Rabbit

Out of several candidates, this is my favorite set of lines:

And Barney was dead, big PartyBoy Barney,
famous for his appetite and lack of self-control—
—now, needing an extra-large coffin,

as if he was taking his old friends
Drinking Eating and Smoking
into the hole with him.

The last stanza especially shows a kind of screwball wit, which I can't help but appreciate even in a Tuesday Poem.

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Re: I'll "confine" myself to this...
by Ted Burke
Yeah, I like that bit too; sometimes attending funerals seem like reruns of old tv shows, as the causes of death and the tributes and regrets expressed in grief seem interchangeable after awhile. You get the feeling that you're watching a teaser trailer of an upcoming feature, your own demise. Hoagland's wit is appreciated here.
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