Some Ghosts

Some ghosts enjoy an entourage

of ectoplasmic bodyguards

who, while they don’t of course

guard bodies, do enjoy the high

regard they get from other souls

who troll this solar system solo.

Snob-allure may stick, post-death –

glamour and mystique adhere.

So status clearly often matters

in the Great Beyond, at least until

the ghost responds to an intensifying

understanding that it doesn’t.

Then the ghost, with entourage,

or sans, will disappear: not because

it was important, but because –

oh, thankfully! – it wasn’t.

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