Tanka 500
Five complications
sing a song of extinction.
Who’ll have the last word?
Five dead souls incognito
sentient and unburied.
2/15/23
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Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
This makes me think of a tontine where the prize isn’t financial but is having the last word.
I love this explanation (I also love the word tontine, it just seems perfect for what it is defined as, in its look and sound). There are a lot of people who would fight to the death for the last word, I do think so.