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FUNERALS by JAMES OPPENHEIM

First Line: ONE WOULD THINK THE DEAD WERE BURYING THE LIVING
Last Line: AND QUICKLY AND QUIETLY BURN IT UP.
Subject(s): FUNERALS; BURIALS;
ONE would think the dead were burying the living, not the living the dead,
The way we hold funerals...
Bah! my heart sickens!

Please, when I die, know that I am very well able to care for myself,
And that the journey is mine, not yours:
Then take the refuse I left behind me
And quickly and quietly burn it up.



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