David Kowalczyk - Quotidian

This raw obscenity is
the word most frequently
spoken by American morticians.


A pleasant and balding cyborg,
it dresses always in
clam-shell gray.


Colorless. Odorless. Tasteless.
It signs its name 'John Doe',
and waits for something
or someone to make it whole.

David Kowalczyk

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/quotidian-2/