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Saturday, July 9

Relative Kindness

For Hire: a Visitor to the Grave of Your Dearly Departed
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/nyregion/womans-job-is-to-visit-graves-for-loved-ones-who-cannot.html?hp

Clean marble headstone,
Paying careful attention to names

Pull away tangles of weeds
And long dead plants

Leave only a simple stone
Or fresh flowers, as desired,

Bow head in pose of remembrance,
Snap photograph, and go
Posted by Stephanie Hope Arnold at 14:45
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