Lent, Day Eleven - and Another Poem

Again, from Poets.org:

To W.C.W. M.D.
by Alfred Kreymborg
There has been Another death. This time I bring it to you. You are kind, Brutal, You know How to lower Bodies. I ask only That the rope Isn't silk, (Silk doesn't break) Nor thread, (Thread does.) If it lifts And lowers Common things, It will do.