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What Must Happen
No rhyme or reason was to be offered
there you were not mere hours ago
writing a letter in your head
who should get that stack of books
and to whom the notebooks should go
what must happen with those other books
that personal effects should be
had by those who want them
no rhyme or reason was to be offered
that so and so was owed
a debt immeasurable and unpayable
that another was owing
an amount of rands and cent
that the sad beauty queen
should be asked to say a few words
about his departed self, if she could
that the only flowers should be
those picked by one’s own hand
that there should be none of that
colour coordinated daftness
that in fact it should be quick
and quiet, with whom is willing
for the being hath escaped the form
and let the only words said be
‘inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un’
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