Dead

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Dead: Click on word for multiple definitions.

From Stopping for Death: Poems of Death and Loss

And Then What

Then their hands they would break bread
wave choke phone thump thread

Then with their tired hands slump
at a table holding their head

Then with glad hands hold other hands
or stroke brief flesh in a kind bed

Then with their hands on the shovel
they would bury their dead.

--Carol Ann Duffy

And those who will not bury their dead have only half a heart to give.

Click on title for James Joyce's "The Dead".
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