Funny poem for a dead man

aka the hardest commission I ever had to write

“My brother Thomas had a twisted sense of humor. I want a poem to read at his funeral—but can you write it in the style of Dr. Seuss? Oh, he’d have gotten a kick out of that.”

Laura is an absurdly friendly woman. She always makes me free hot chocolate. She is a self-proclaimed psychic and owns a coffee shop.

She also asked me to write the hardest thing I…