Open Only In A Disaster
 

Inside
there will be
instructions on reassembling
the world
my mother
a shrink wrapped
breakdown
packets of disposable
sunsets
a light opera
inflatable ego
repair kit
with adhesive smiles
for my father
for stillborn babies
a first aid
solitude
pieces of the view
from your window
boxes of clouds
lined with silver
plastic bags of euthanasia
a collapsible stairway
to heaven
tiny tablets of famine
and a list
of what I should have said to you
before removing the lid.

©David Gregory