Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Death

by Dan Ryan


How can a letter be declared dead?
     Are we talking about one, singular letter  
        - Z - 
for instance,
     or a sheet of paper covered in letters,
arranged into words?
     Be the words from a dead language,
are they incomprehensibly dead?
     And, just how should one dispose of a dead letter,
singular or otherwise?
     Little information about the Dead Letter Office
has ever been made public.
     Is burial, or cremation, preferred?
I think I’ve come to a dead end, here.

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Dan is a regular contributor to this blog. His work also appears in AlteredScale.com 3.

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