There it stands glistening
like a well-polished coach
of mahogany, silver handled,
waiting to carry any paying
passenger on a long, long journey
to a destination of resurrection or perdition.
The fare is the traveller's life,
to be paid before the trip starts.
Soon it comes to a newly-completed house
with an up 'Vacant' notice:
'Ready for immediate occupation
by any permanent tenant,
all welcome, the young and old
the rich and poor, the powerful and weak'.
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