If my memory serves me well, Earp is in the Jewish cemetery(??). His wife was Jewish.
In San Francisco; two of the Jewish synagogues had cemeteries in what is now Dolores Park - two blocks from where I live. In 1890 or so the graves were lifted (unburied) and taken down to Colma (between 5 & 10 miles away). Personally I don't believe all the graves were emptied, nor the bones of the Ohlone Indians that preceded the Jews. On a good day you get the ghosts. The ones that no one could ever fit into a data-base.
Earp,I believe, without going to Google, was buried in Colma after the 1890 bone removal. So no local ghostly sight of a Stetson bearing man - but that would be neat (I think!).
I count those ghosts among my friends - mostly!
Congratulations Rachel!
Stephen
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Fri, 6/19/09, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: a visit to the possum (at poetry daily today)
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 11:00 AM
Did they really bury Earp in his stetson? Waste of a good hat. A hat
to hang a head on.
At 01:45 PM 6/19/2009, you wrote:
>There are no dead pets in the poem, though, unless we want to imagine Tom as
>Ezra's pet.
>
>Dead poets, maybe -- dead pets, no.....
>
>Catherine Daly wrote:
>
> > the dead pets are in Daly City, tho
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Rachel Loden
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear P'etceteras,
> > >
> > > De-lurking briefly to say that "Dear Possum," my riff on a
> > few lines from
> > > "The Waste Land," is at Poetry Daily today:
> > >
> > > http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14415
> > > <blocked::http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14415>
> > >
> > > and will be in their archives for a year.
> > >
> > > Back under the black waves but looking forward to summer
> > >
> > > (and, I hope, being here),
> > >
> > > Rachel
> > >
> > > http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/loden/loden.htm
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > All best,
> > Catherine Daly
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
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