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A Pitch for Cremation

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A letter from the Neptune Society arrived today
  proposing their solution to bodily decay.
It was a completely thoughtless, I must say,
  being addressed to a person who has passed away.
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Dear Carol my mother-in-law, loved to this day,
  who, two years ago, met her final destiny.

I returned the card in their prepaid envelop
  and included some choice words in a note.
The USPS charges Neptune to deliver the reply
  my tiny way of sticking it in their eye!
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Cease with the mailings, get your list up to date,
  for the person you are pitching, is in a dead state.

Pete Zeller
September 12, 2024