How to Bury Me

Dig the soft earth 

Strike. Strike. Strike. 

Strike the ground. 

And let down the casket. 

The whiteness suffocate me. 

Give me a lump

Of wet earth, down in fistfuls. 

Let me down gently. 

The casket hurts me so. 

Niangthianmuang S Ngaihte

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