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Yep, in the Jewish cemetery -- that's in my note at Poetry Daily (a clickable link). But I didn't know about all this reburying -- fascinating, Stephen. I like the notion of the ghosts as half in the databases, and half out -- each caught in that purgatory. > 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] > > > >