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@ -78,4 +78,27 @@ She smiled — another blessing! — and nodded to me.
"We sat in the solarium and spoke about what reading *is.* She spoke of taking a story or a poem and wrapping oneself up in it. She gave me an example. She recited a poem:
> Too many suits move in too many lines.
> They circle banquet tables, hawk-eyed,
> hunting crudites, canapés, bruscheta.
> Fingers ferry food — fish, perhaps — finding
> slack-jawed mouths already open,
> squawking at wayward children
> or bemoaning The Market,
> whatever that may be.
> At some point, who cares how long ago,
> death surfaced, claimed one, submerged again.
> Who knows how well they knew him,
> their backs turned, studiously
> deciding that he is no longer of them?
> one could never guess.
> We can say his suit was very fine, perhaps,
> that the room is tastefully furnished,
> the coffin silver, the bar, open,
> quite good, and none of them are drunk yet,
> or at least none look it.
> “Good man, good man,” they mutter,
> doing all they can to convince each other
> through well-rehearsed performances,
> that this must be the case.
> The silently bereaved already sit graveside.