Forty dollars

I like the idea of people leaving funerals and giving money to those in need. Maybe five dollars at a time.

He does not want flowers

At his funeral

He says

Rather

Take forty dollars

From your pocket

Give it to the next person

You see

Who needs it.

Don’t worry how

They’ll spend it,

How

They’ll squander it.

Squandering is in the eye

Of the giver.

Please

No flowers at my funeral.

Dribble forty dollars

Through your fingers

To the next person

In need.

I will be remembered

Enough.