A Good-Looking Corpse

Christel Dall posted a photo/text montage about death. Some commenters suggested it should’ve been more explicit. I demurred.

It’s only in cartoons that death is a skeleton in a black robe. Mostly it looks like the girl next door, or a fast car blowing a red exhaust note, or your smiling mama bringing a pie to the table, or that perfect hole-in-one you’ve always dreamed of. Life is messy and annoying, a wrong number, a lost dollar, a headache in the middle of the day. Death is elegant, perfect. Most people look better when they’re dead than they did the day before. Christel amazed and delighted me by using my comment as the clou of another pastiche, viewable here.