Dead Friends on eBay

I find dead friends on eBay,
dead poets
who have melted into soups

of good feelings now,
the shadow alphabets
of who they were in life.

I hit the virtual button
MAKE AN OFFER
and hope the ghosts

will become more affordable
and soon be on their way
back to me in envelopes.

I listen in a dark room to my cat;
he uses his paw on a door
over and over

to get in a room
he knows we never use,
just to see: a wonderful

new darkness.