Susan R. Morritt

Get Grisly

I wouldn’t want to be the one
to dress the dead.

Undergarments?
(Let your mind get grisly.)
An apprenticeship or a rigid recipe 
for fashion, be it rigor mortis de rigueur –
But who’s to posture?
Flat on your back, in no position to complain.

I wouldn’t want the job, no Sir –
We’re not talking paper dolls here.

But I’ve nudged the image into your ear,
smoothed the texture against your eye,
just in case you might deny
the thought had ever crossed your mind.



Susan R. Morritt is a writer, visual artist and musician from Waterford, Ontario, Canada. Her prose, poetry and visual art appear in numerous journals including 34 Orchard Journal, Does It Have Pockets, The Speckled Trout Review, Third Estate Art Decapitate Journal, Mid-level Management Literary Magazine, Pictura Journal, Literary Cocktail, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. Susan is a former racehorse trainer who has worked extensively with livestock, including teaching turkeys English as a Second Language.