"I like the notion of the ghosts as half in the databases, and half out --
each caught in that purgatory."
Rachel, I think the Jews have had enough, let alone a few other tribes. I say keep the ghosts - more fun, at least more fun for writing- and leave the codes for dull and the DMV! (Lots of luck!)
Stephen
> Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
> 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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