Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters
...the dead have been given one final opportunity to speak to the living in the form of epitaphs. Take a stroll through the graveyard; the words on each tombstone create an image of the way the person's life was lived. Together, these tombstones tell of a community that strove for perfection and goodness and relied heavily on faith - but, things don't always turn out as planned... - Spoon River Anthology - Literary Touchstone Classic
Judge Somers
How does it happen, tell me,
That I who was most erudite of lawyers,
Who knew Blackstone and Coke
Almost by heart, who made the greatest speech
The court-house ever heard, and wrote
A brief that won the praise of Justice Breese
How does it happen, tell me,
That I lie here unmarked, forgotten,
While Chase Henry, the town drunkard,
Has a marble block, topped by an urn
Wherein Nature, in a mood ironical,
Has sown a flowering weed?
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Nought queer as folk
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8 comments:
Loved that show! :-)
What would your epitaph say?
J - I don't know... and I have been thinking about it. I almost included that as a question in the post.
My partner said recently (in response to a friends opining that life with me could not be easy) : "... at least it hasn't been boring."
J - what would yours say?
one of my great favorites is that a first edition?
K - I believe it is, courtesy of wikipedia )
I intend to put my recipe for fudge on my tombstone. Seriously. Everyone can just make it for themselves.
She lived unencumbered by social mores.
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