A Eulogy for Pete

It’s good to see you look better than the last time

Even better to hear you speak from the heart

Everyone expects you’ll probably die soon

Too much pain in one life for just one heart

I wrote a song using lines you spoke in that film

I like the romantic language and it makes good poetry

You chose to be a libertine, what a shame, what a pity

Trading a life of misery, for poetic eternity

The legacy you leave can’t be what you’d imagined

Too many fractures for a linear story

Bury him with Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison 

Or at Victoria Palace Gates, as Britain’s favorite son