Hey, Bro’– Will You Accept the Charges??

Something a little different for me. A prose poem originally published in Black Coffee Poetry on Substack, as part of their Gothic Pact collection.

Even The Dead Need a Sympathetic Ear
What good is despair if you can’t share it?Life was pressing down on me
It’ll do that
Even when you’re dead
When you’re on a cruise ship
On the River Styx
Especially when Foghat’s
Playing Slow RideThe dead have feelings, too
Ask anyone who’s been in a coffin
That’s slid down church steps
And T-boned a hearse
Dropped by a pallbearer
Who ate a donut
And forgot to wash his hands