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11-21-2006, 11:18 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Queensland, (was Sydney) Australia
Posts: 15,574
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Marion, Jan and Rose and Mark--you set the bar high.
Alkan
Here lies a pianist so crushed
by learning that his work was hushed.
Felled by a bookcase in his prime
the victim beat his proper time.
Alkan, though curious, expired
beneath the wisdom he’d acquired.
Isadora Duncan
Isadora died maintaining
elegance without complaining.
Throttled by a scarf she guessed
her final gesture was well dressed.
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11-21-2006, 11:22 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Queensland, (was Sydney) Australia
Posts: 15,574
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(mine)
I am so cross now that I'm dead.
I haven't heard what people said.
[This message has been edited by Janet Kenny (edited November 22, 2006).]
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11-21-2006, 11:27 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pasadena, California
Posts: 2,378
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We strew Frank's ashes on the bay today; don't weep.
At last, he's breezy, with a touch of grey - and deep.
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11-22-2006, 12:18 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA
Posts: 102
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The flowers bloom, then turn to seed;
The hands move slowly 'round the dial.
I should have brought a book to read—
It seems I'll be here for a while.
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11-22-2006, 07:35 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Canada and Uruguay
Posts: 5,857
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Here lies Cat.
And that's that.
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11-22-2006, 10:07 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Belmont, Massachusetts USA
Posts: 2,976
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Beneath this stone my mortal clay
lies still and cold within a box.
I'll miss the joys of life, but hey--
Better here than watching FOX.
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11-22-2006, 11:01 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Plum Island, MA; Santa Fe, NM
Posts: 11,168
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I'll write my own self-mocking epitaph,
and rest assured I've had the final laugh.
[This message has been edited by Michael Cantor (edited November 22, 2006).]
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11-22-2006, 11:46 AM
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Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland
Posts: 4,949
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Here lies Johnny Murphy
who was always laid back
he smoked marijuana
cocaine and crack.
He lies in this graveyard
alas and alack
a stone at his head
saying;Keep off the Grass.
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11-22-2006, 11:48 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Houston, TX, USA
Posts: 7,827
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Dearly Departed
I.
He liked to say he'd tried his best.
I hope his soul has earned its rest,
for while he tried a lot of stuff,
his best just wasn't good enough.
II.
He always got the final word.
A pity that he never heard
the warning shout before the blow--
he was too busy talking. So,
now that he's silently interred,
his tombstone reads, "Look out below!"
III.
God forgive your departed servant,
condescending, snide, and arrogant.
God help the rest of us that we might
forgive him the sin of being right.
IV.
She had the most exhaustive store
of where she'd been and what she knew.
On any subject she understood more--
she'd been there, done that ahead of you.
I imagine she's been to Hell before
and is telling Lucifer what to do.
Carol Taylor
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11-22-2006, 11:49 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: New York
Posts: 16,476
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"Loud enough to wake the dead,"
.... they say. Now that I'm gone,
if you can find a noise like that,
.... I beg you, bring it on!
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