Death

by Dan Ryan

How can a letter be declared dead?

     Are we talking about one, singular letter  

        - Z - 

for instance,

     or a sheet of paper covered in letters,

arranged into words?

     Be the words from a dead language,

are they incomprehensibly dead?

     And, just how should one dispose of a dead letter,

singular or otherwise?

     Little information about the Dead Letter Office

has ever been made public.

     Is burial, or cremation, preferred?

I think I’ve come to a dead end, here.

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Dan is a regular contributor to this blog. His work also appears in AlteredScale.com 3.