It was a hell of a way to die.
Not blood-on-the-pavement die. Not sirens-screaming die.
I died respectable.
Respectability will smooth your edges down so neat you won’t even feel the blood leaving. They take your volume first. Then your questions. Then your body. And every correction is a small funeral.
But here’s what they don’t expect: resurrection.
Because I am done attending my own burials.