Do the rich get offended by death?
Does his manner put them off?
Do they look down upon a phenomenon
so impartial?
That takes rich and poor to their graves
so impassively?
Do they dare turn up their noses
at his vast simplicity?
Do they sneer at being destroyed
by tumors so ugly and small?
Or leaving their opulence
because of mere strands of RNA?
Maybe they do get offended by death
and stave him off a little better than most.
A little.