D i e Carefully

Please die carefully:

Don’t spill your guts on our pavements,

Or  disturb our peace

With the noise of your expiry.

Please die carefully:

Roadside explosions will not

Be  tolerated;

Local byelaws prohibit such things.

Please die carefully:

Preferably out of view;

A headline in the paper

To prove that you passed through.

(Thank you for driving carefully

Through our  village).