Our Names Are Their Own

This author, an example
If ever there were one, of
Exquisite nominative

Determinism, sat down
Dressed as a Halloween Ghost
To compose a eulogy,

Or elegy, threnody,
Tragedy, something like that.
But we informed the would-be,

We do all the talking here,
And we’re the actual ghosts,
And no one’s name is their own.