#2,360 Funeral costs have rocketed

Funeral costs have rocketed
over this year
[nothing to do
with Covid or Brexit –
they’ll
remind us] –
Burial is a swell
business to be in –
Buy a plot
before they run out –
order a
casket in that finest wood –
I
looked at Dad shored up in a
box
[they did an awful job of
making him up –
note –
don’t
let my kids see me done up] –
verism rulings at my funeral
[if there has to be a shindig]