How To Write Your Own Obituary Poem by Raj Arumugam

you don’t die first
you just write
though publishing it may be posthumous;
and praise yourself cos
you don’t know if the living
will remember or curse

how to write
your own obituary?
Look, you know yourself best -
no one, if you really think about it
likes you better than you like yourself
so you really got a good start there

and then
all you need also is a bit of imagination
just pretend you’re someone else
deeply in love with you

so now start writing your own obituary
and see it flow and glow like gold
in 2011’s financial markets

Happy dying and typing that obituary;
best no plagiarism in this -
come on, haven’t you done enough already?

And have I written mine?
Oh sure - I’ll share it with you...
I’m been boringly modest and indistinct all my life
so I give myself some credit in dying;
so here it is,
in all characteristic modesty
and brevity:

Here lies
The Greatest