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It’s Someone’s Job

Janet Kuypers, 06/10/11

it’s someone’s job
to stitch the eyes and lips
of a corpse up

it’s someone’s job
to take a generic beige powder and concealer
to give my friend the color of life

it’s someone’s job
to trim the facial hair
that extrudes after death

it’s someone’s job
to style a corpse’s hair
so it still looks like the one you love

it’s not my job
to think of these things
when you’re the one in the coffin

it’s not fair
that we see the powder along your face
that we see the powder on your hands

is also on your nails

it’s not right
to see you like this
why must we make you up this way?

it’s not the way you lived
and this shouldn’t be you
after you died

it’s someone’s job
to staple you shut,
to make you look more alive

it’s someone’s job
to cosmetically placate our fears
to make us not see

what your body has become

it’s someone’s job
to keep out fantasy going
because even though you’ve stopped living

we can’t cope with your death

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