Don't Buy an Urn

Don't bury me
when I die.
Have me cremated
but don't buy an urn.
Put my ashes
inside one of those safes
that looks like a book.
You can get them cheap.
Seal it up
and put it on a shelf
among my favorite books.
Print a label for the spine
with my name and
the title Complete Works,
and when visitors
peruse our library
you can point it out
and tell them
that this volume
was the culmination
of my life and
I put everything I had
into it. - Jeff Barnes