Posthumous Bill Collector


Where do
your debts go
after you are dead?

Gigantic cosmic erasers
eradicate them from
your credit report,

wiping it clean
as an unblemished
chalkboard.

You can’t squeeze
a buck from a
deceased person,
or you can bet
your creditors would try.

Even when you think
you’re safe inside
The Great Beyond,
you’ll still get those

annoying phone calls
and sinister envelopes
marked “Urgent.”

You thought you
would escape,
didn’t you?