A member of parliament proposed

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A member of parliament proposed

that when we’re ready, when we’re ripe,

we might have another do us in.

All we’ll need is a

“durable,

well-considered,

intrinsic

death wish.”

Serving us will be the

“end-of-life facilitator,”

a fully-equipped and professionally-trained

practitioner of the art of the new humane.

We’ll have to be 75, of course,

and there’ll be meetings involved –

bureaucracy will have its day –

but wish we may and dream we might:

the government will give us night!

How could I not live in this world where I speak to the dead

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How could I not live in this world

where I speak to the dead and

they speak to me, and intercede –

if I would, if I pray –

even if I never knew them?

 

How could I not sign on for angels

and parted seas and tents in the desert,

and the last prophet who was the greatest,

but less than every child still to come?

 

How could I not want every chance repeatedly

to see and forgive – to tap out deeds of love

and be propped up – to pick up my mat and

soar, dammit, in a sky of mercy?!

 

I could not not turn to you

or live in any other world.

This is the world,

and I claim it.