Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Cut Some Slack!

The corpse and casket did not fit.
So in order to make things jive,
I cut off the guy's legs a bit.
After all, he was not alive.
Being a mortician is not
Without some office politics.
The amputee's family got
Very upset about my fix.
How did the family find out?
A darn co-worker tattletaled.
Now there's all this mad talk about
Me getting fined, fired - maybe jailed.

If I was a tailor by trade,
I could see the argument made.