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About a Funeral
Contributed by
CalamityAna
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Thursday, 22nd June 2006 @ 10:48:50 PM in AEST
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Not the tears,
Not the overly sympathetic onlookers,
Not the mocking, gaudy roses,
And the empathetic lilies.
Not the zealous pastors looking for any excuse to evangelize,
Not the self righteous choir dabbing at fake tears with two-ply Kleenex,
Not even the desperate cries of a family abandoned.
No.
The worst thing
About a funeral
Is the eerie
Morbid
Macabre creek the lever makes
When total strangers lower
Lower
Lower
Lower
Your husband, your father, your brother, your uncle,
Your Friend.
Into the ground.
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CalamityAna
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2006-06-22 22:48:50]
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Re: About a Funeral
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by Avarice_Riot on
Thursday, 22nd June 2006 @ 11:02:36 PM AEST
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I liked that you focused on describing things that most people overlook when recounting a funeral. They'd usually talk about the speeches given, the teary faces, the outbursts of tears. The ominously final sound of the lever is something that you have captured beautifully here.
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Re: About a Funeral
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by shelby on
Friday, 23rd June 2006 @ 01:17:46 AM AEST
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this is very good. Yes that is the uttmost of the final part of it. Not many hear it or think of it. Your wrote this with good taste.
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Re: About a Funeral
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by Davinah on
Friday, 23rd June 2006 @ 06:33:45 AM AEST
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Funerals... you are absolutely right in the way you described them.
Very well done.
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