Reading Poetry To The Dead Poem by Orike Didi

Reading Poetry To The Dead



I pity those who struggle
with words
and the words end up killing them;
what shall we do at their funeral?
Read them more poetry?
Will more words kill them again?

But I have seen men die
at the funeral of other men,
I have seen men being buried
before the burial of the first dead;
do we call that collateral damage?

So, if words kill a poet
how much volume of words will kill
those who read poetry to a dead poet?

Paris.0400hrs October 12,2013

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Orike Didi

Orike Didi

Ogbogu, Rivers State, Nigeria
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