At a funeral

Dollar bills in corpse’s hand

For Grandpa’s stripper

“He gets table dances still,”

Said his grandson to me there.

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I was at a visitation last week for one of my wife’s colleagues from the flea market. She’d lost her husband to cancer and he was decked out at a local funeral home. Open casket visitations are never my favorite but they were proud of how good he looked. Dressed in a t-shirt (‘I love my grandkids’) and red baseball cap, his coffin draped with the US flag, he held a handful of dollar bills to pay for his lap dances in Heaven.