Planting, Sonnet answer to Eponym challenge Options

[Larry]

Planting

Lazar, or what was left of him, now rode
in grey sedan to lead the second line.
From saxophone and trumpet music flowed
as he, in white fedora, lay supine
upon gardenia and gentian bed.
Micawber, the mortician, thought it best
although it was eristic for the dead;
but his Achilles heel was zealot’s test.

He’d tried lobelia and greengage bloom
mixed with sliced Bartlett pear to stanch the smell
from poor Lazar’s leprotic flesh... the doom
of all disease. Youngberry black, his shell
was all that now remained. As he had planned,
he died; Winchester rifle in his hand.


Eponyms used: lazar, sedan, saxophone, fedora, gardenia, gentian, micawber, eristic, Achilles heel, zealot, lobelia, greengage, Bartlett pear, youngberry, Winchester rifle