coins for the dead

libertas deigned to cover her eyes when her light went out and her people were dead but alive

they picked a coin from the leftmost pile it was ancient faded tired necrotic with an absent smile erstwhile

they picked a coin from the rightmost pile it was obese treacherous wild putrid and covered in bile just fucking vile

the coins were placed over her eyes and she was sent on her way but when she arrived at the banks resigned to her fate the ferryman scowled for these symbols of decay even he would not take

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