After all that
hard work
keeping straight
on the path,
imagine
your relief
when you're
finally dead—and,
just as you suspected,
you wind up
in heaven.
Which of course
is a place of endless
harmony and order
to which no one
in perpetuity can
possibly object—
where there's
no such word
as outrageous,
and there's
no such concepts
as crisis
or danger—
so you
never again
need to pretend
to be
tiresome things,
such as
brave
or pragmatic.
