Lets walk through the cemetery  I think the dead would appreciate us the living among their presence

They’re dead.

So

Their presencethey have no presenc . .

. . Are you fucking kiddin me  No presence

backpedaling a bit You’re taking me wrong.

Speak

        Right your ship

I meant presence as in you and mewere present.

Diggin your hole deeper

   I don’t want to go.

To the cemetery

Yeah.

   Why  Have you really given it any thought

                                                    Or are you simply repulsedyaseem repulsed  not of your upbringing how manyChrist how many funeral wakes burials  have you attended People didnt die while you were growingup

That wasn’tfor lack of a better word . . part . of our family’s culture.

                                                                       So no.  I do not want to walk through the cemetery.

You know people in it?

I do I went with them to their graves

                                        I could point them out tell ya stories about them

I don’t know them.

You’d get to know them

I could show you one hell of an epithet on an epitaph  I love saying that

On a headstone?

A small headstone Created some rancor in the communitybut he had one helluva a sense of humour He was on my paper route all ten years I delivered it He was always kind to me One day on the route on my birthday he met me at his front door had a box of chocolatecovered cherries dark chocolate He said Happy Birthday  I thanked him He said This wasn’t my idea, the wife’s. Well please thank her for me I will.

What’s on his headstone?

Jew Bill Lee

Jubilee.

Yes

Why would that upset the community?

Bill was proud of his faith This neck of the woods wasnt receptive Frankly I think Bill moved here to stir the pot made it America held the neighbourhood up to Americas promise as a promise not lipservice

Jubilee.   Jubilee? I don’t get it.

Jew Bill Lee not jubilee

                         J E W  B I L L  L E E

On his headstone?

Sensational huh I can show you He rests near a great old black walnut He bought the plots for he and his wife his sons when he saw it he had three formidable black walnuts on his property Made me lotsa money rakingup their leaves in the fall

Jew Bill Lee.

He was something else   Now thaya know him wanna visit with me  Ill introduce you

No.

0900,  day-between-2-Ts,  3  1. 24

1332,  day-between-2-Ts,  10  1. 24

Kazukii  Ansia  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGp1YI7IGHo