Paradise

Great orchids bloom
Against the humid, foggy gloom,
Seedlings eat the dead
And on my skin rolls angry red
As army ants crush my bones
Marching over my heaving tombstone;
And I rot six feet underneath
While paradise glares at me with gnashing teeth.

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