When I die, as we all will,
please don't hold a funeral.
Just let me rest in peace.
Don't gather and hug and kiss and cry.
Don't sing somber or joyous songs.
Don't get up and spray your words
over all those attending.
Just let me rest in peace.
Don’t visit my sons
With plates of food
that they won’t eat
but will have to wash and return.
Just leave them to grieve
(or not) in their own ways.
Don’t breathe and sneeze
your thoughts of how loved,
or not, I was, and how much
I will be missed, or not.
Just let me rest in peace.
If you have thoughts
About me, loving or not,
tell me now, or tell my sons
in a disinfected letter.
Just let me rest in peace:
don’t send me company.
