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