Max thanks I identify with that -funerals and all
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Sent: 25 February 2009 05:09
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Subject: snap: Missing
Missing
Another funeral not attended! - absence
excused this time by distance -
and judging that I won't be missed.
Resolved: write her family soon -
or will I? I'd rather do my
missing of her on my own.
But deaths near home - missed
funerals, without shadow of excuse -
too many to list.
Yet - much on my mind
is the way someone
wittier than me explained
the concept 'reciprocity' -
'you go to my funeral,
I go to yours - see?'
Who's next? Not, I reckon, me,
but folk I've known a long while
are ailing, though they surely
deserve many more years,
and years of health at that.
There's one funeral
however late or soon
I'll find unmissable.
Sorry I won't see you there.
25 February 2009
Max Richards
Doncaster, Victoria, Australia
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