The funeral director lies and tells
the grave digger the service is for an
old cowboy named Mr. Bobo
Policeman patrol with shotguns as
Lee Harvey Oswald’s widow
weeps before the open casket
telling her children
“Look, papa sleeps”
The minister never arrives
fearing sniper fire
Hours after John F. Kennedy
is laid to rest six reporters
become reluctant pallbearers
for his assassin
Bereaved as furniture movers
they quickly return an
unwanted corpse
back to the earth