Poem Written on the Back of a Death Warrant

Just a piece of paper
With such power
Has my name on it.

Official, bureaucratic,
Faceless, certain...

So unlike the craggy cliffs,
The flowers, the blue air,
Life composed crystal clear
without a word.

A mind did this...
A mind adding ones and twos,
Crossing t´s and dotting i´s,
Detached and abstracted,
Thinking of meat loaf.

My corpse is that mind´s signature.