Advice for next tenant

How to die like a dictator

It will start like this / a woman one row from the front won’t clap / and nobody will act /

When it comes it will come slowly / a continental ache of bones /

It’s not how you imagine / The nightclub in your basement will not explode on your 40th birthday / The Americans won’t send remote controlled aeroplanes to vapourise your swimming pool /

You will die like a tree / The party zealots will dig you out of the ground and burn you /

You will die / eventually / from being ignored /

Smartphones will lift the sanctions that grant you power over the people / help you to keep the family apart /