Death And Tax Avoidance

Are two facets of life
in capitalist societies,
where everyone wants to ignore,
and then for good measure ignore
how they ignore, how the wealthy
see it as their duty to avoid paying tax,
the more to make being rich a state,
and status above The State, autonomous.

Whereas death, and grief at the loss of life,
is harder to avoid where it happens
though people will do their best to try,
by sentimentalising loss
and buying the comfort they want
as if relief from grief could be bought
'off the shelf'. Whatever it is they think
they are buying, they don't know themselves.