{"id":1196,"date":"2026-03-16T23:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:10:37","slug":"burial-task-a-poem-by-bill-kochman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/burial-task-a-poem-by-bill-kochman\/","title":{"rendered":"BURIAL TASK — a poem and song by BBB"},"content":{"rendered":"

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#Poetry #Poem<\/p>\n

BURIAL TASK<\/p>\n

by Bill Kochman<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n

01-01-2017<\/p>\n

I really did try to stop you,
\nSaid you were drinking too fast,
\nBut you glared with reddened eyes,
\nAnd said “Hey dude, I didn’t ask.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, you just have another sip,
\nAfter all, it will be your last,
\nSatan has got you so deceived,
\nHe laughs behind a friendly mask.<\/p>\n

Sure, go ahead and just do it,
\nBreak open yet one more cask,
\nBut someday when you least expect,
\nFriends will get your burial task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#Poetry #Poem BURIAL TASK by Bill Kochman https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry 01-01-2017 I really did try to stop you, Said you were drinking too fast, But you glared with reddened eyes, And said “Hey dude, I didn’t ask.” Yeah, you just have another … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4772,3],"tags":[20,21,559,22,139,135,134,30],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-poetry","tag-bill-kochman","tag-bills-bible-basics","tag-burial-task","tag-christian","tag-original","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poetry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38511,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/38511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}