[potential sources of enlightenment to be found while maintaining one’s preferred site of burial]
This guide is meant as a primer
to those invested in their own posthumous resting.
Sedation of emotion will help prevent onlookers
from gathering to wish condolences;
a mind free from conversation will better
comprehend the finality of decor.
Additionally, a clear perimeter
will assist in syphoning off precious
inches from adjacent sites. Your kin
will derive an uncomfortable delight
from the largesse of your memorial.
Select tools carefully, contemplating
the purpose of each, as well as ease of concealment;
security has, in recent times
attempted to eradicate the toils
made by future corpses whose aesthetic
preferences preclude any possibility
of final rest. Snacks, too, should be considered
by those whose blueprints include any sort of monumental
stone, whether obelisk or tomb; graveyard
architecture is established at a pace
befitting the dreams of the deceased.
Suffice to say, the editors of this article
regret that decisions of such design-finitude
exist; such arrangements ought not encourage
anxiety. Instead, prudent and inventive
designers of sites should experience catharsis
with the knowledge that final thoughts
will rest on a well-composed grave.
(rules of the above:
must combine practical knowledge with philosophical problem; each line 8-14 syllables)
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