May we remember to visit our dead,
that we won’t stop knowing them.
May we remember our place,
finding theirs.
Romantics, they say, have a reality problem
but I don’t know what it is. Maybe the dead
will have some ideas.
Mortality is such a threat to continuity
––at least of culture, at least of certain
things we used to know,
they say.
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Inspired by William Goodwin’s Essay on Sepulchres (1809).