Advice On Graveyard Snakes

On this day the snow drops in
before we are ready to let it win,
not to be too specific
even though it would be quite
terrific, the way the faces
might begin to scowl
as truth tromps on the magnificent
jowl of those who thought
the few of us mad become
the tragic stars of a music sad.

All of life is tonic clonic up and down
sleep and wake smile and frown
dreadful blind and unwholesome kind
that mock and will be mocked for ages
during time that doesn't move an hour
forward or backward then turns it sour
for those to drink their own dark pus
the type that manufactures us
an old protection from bitter swell
of cancer or infection within the cell.

With this in mind and new precision
let us now pretend our decision
wasn't meant at all for ever
act like we were not that clever
when in fact the devil did walk
the precious path and made small talk
with wise old fools used to books
and friends of friends of small time crooks,
let them pretend to mock instead of mock
before they are handed an old stopped clock
with which they will be keeping time
inside their graves without a voice
with which to rhyme.

How goes it there with you we'll say
how goes it inside the ground with you?
Doing fine just doing fine but tell us
if in fact we will wake up soon?
Tell us news about our mothers
are they too in dirt that smothers
or have they yet ascended to heaven
before we made it here at eleven?
Salaams to you and all the others
but in our den the light's quite good
the odor a bit like fragrant wood,
there is no news yet and all we know
is our fingers cannot ammend
the pages and our shabby hair
does not grow but a bit an hour.

Do not panic and just sit tight
in there with so little light
an hour to enjoy this brief respite.
Like the life which you wasted
the truth of this you never tasted
cannot be savored here
without the sugar and saliva
that made your webs so tangled there.
At least take heart a little
your nerves are brittle
this group of yours isn't small
you aren't alone, not at all,
the vermin arrive before the fall.