Dovina1 Feb 2005
Well, for starters, try âaskâ in the first line. Nothing like bad grammar to tick off satin.
The second verse (lines 2 & 3) doesnât hold ginger ale because when a pious person comes to death, he seldom says that, but rather glorifies God.
After that dismal beginning, it improves. The statements to the dead man are poignant, if futile, since heâs dead.
Wait a minute, heâs alive again in the âdispiritedâ verse. You must mean in the afterlife. Whatever, that aggravates your cause, donât you think? Presuming an afterlife?
So here is the pious man arguing, presumably with Peter or some such Golden Gate Keeper, justifying his righteous life. But then itâs Death that laughs, so the whole thing is getting ethereal and weird.
The argument continues, but it seems futile. The man is already dead and in no position to change anything.
Other than that, itâs a fine fight.