Meal: Last

Orange sunrise on his woke
last-meal lobster-butter choke
cucumber-melon bathroom soap
life-last scent long-lost hope
recollection interlope
innocents he crushed and broke

Fingers slip on slope of throat
justice of the hangman’s rope
badman croaks a deathly note
righteous as a holy pope
sullen spirit fails to float
tossed-out corpse begins to bloat