Have you heard the sad tale of NecroQuery---
who hearing of his enemy's death, offered to bury
that radical poet's stiff and stinking cadaver
in a most obscure place, with the least palaver.
NecroQuery hoped his foe would soon be forgotten
in that unmarked grave, a corpse well covered and rotten.
But much to NecroQuery's shame, and much against his intent,
the dead man's admirers raise over his tomb a towering monument.
Starward