Spirit Box, EMF Meter, Dowsing Rod ($494.60)

Let's workshop this poem about the consolatory impetus behind purchasing a ghost hunter kit (dowsing rod included) and, more importantly, whether that consolatory impetus is itself misguided

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Spirit Box, EMF Meter, Dowsing Rod ($494.60)

Grand as it made him
to help the dead, even if
he faced the death fear
below his buying

Bezos ghost gizmos,
he would not wonder:
should it ease us, an afterlife
kinking AM static

in hope some basement
mama’s boy, unscrambling
our English, grants us
permission to “let go”?

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