What You Know

To write well about being
Dead requires experience,
But by the time you have it

An uncrossable chasm
Divides you from readership,
And, since none of the dead read,

Only write, that’s it. No, worse,
So far as you know, the dead
All write equally well, so

Even if they could read you
Why should they? So you all write
About what all of you know

For no one, when everyone
Alive is dying to know.