I was exchanging poetry enthusiasm with
excused_early and I realized that we hadn't had a death poem for a while. I like the self-irony in this one. The names of the poets as given here, by the way, are nearly all pen names, not personal names.

The image of Gackt is courtesy of R&R Newsmaker magazine 2004 issue No 184 and the beautiful scan was made by
subtlepresence