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Final Viewing

Next, have a seat here on your casket and tell me how you're doing
Relax yourself with rigor mortis as I prepare you for the viewing
That ashen look will disappear with just a few tweaks
I may have to break your jawbone to help you speak

I'll use curling irons of hell's fire to revive your hair
I'll fill in the bald spots yes I can put hair back anywhere
Just watch as my nimble little fingers move along here and there
Watch as I add back your life's color as if out of thin air

I have rice flour to add color and replace flaking skin
A little rouge is what I'll use to add a little sin
Yes it's good that you have pouty lips let me paint them red
Believe me you have forever and a day to resemble the dead

Let's just get past this viewing, when I'm finished you can lie down
While your coffin is open please remember not to move around
Just lie there and allow them to marvel at all the work that I did  
The stab wounds and strangulation prints have all been hid

So take one last look at yourself in this mirror before becoming my wife
You became Persephone to my Hades thanks to your killer's knife
In time you will in doubt look just like Me
But to achieve this level of beauty could take you an eternity    
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