Threnody
a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, esp. for the dead.
From Greek thrên(os) ‘dirge’ and -ōid(e) ‘song’.
Threnody is the alter ego of Melody Jacobs, a character in the X-Men comics with the abilities to sense the dead and dying, absorb energy, deliver concussive blasts, and create/control zombies.
Appears in the poem Superbia (Vanity) by Ernest Hilbert.
Excerpt
O suffering student of heresies and small threnodies, Coughing up warm beer in the Back of a cab and still empyreal This disastrous, this dominical icefall
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