Marketing loves the possibilities.
Families finding their departed children jobs
to cover funeral costs, teach responsibility.
Retirees rising and returning
to lower pay and status. Less of a burden that way.
Plus, we're saved from decorating offices
and parking lots with plants and trees.
Life's an old college course to them now.
Any reminders make them feel stupid.
They're stingier, too. We're already hearing
about waiters being left nothing.
For hours the corpses fill up on bread,
trying to remember how it felt saving money.
But these are the young complaining.
As we've known for a while, the old
are getting younger, some half our age
already arguing with their joints,
perhaps joining our new focus group
in just a few more years
as we draw them all nearer,
as close-together as headstone lots.
