Of course, What Remains is concerned with the most serious of subjects, but that doesn’t mean it’s without humor, as in Sheryl Nelms’ account of a Texas funeral brimming with the deceased’s personal style.
Sheryl L. Nelms
THE FUNERAL AT MINGUS, TEXAS
they said
Bobbie Lou
paid for them to do it
her way at the cemetery
blue tarp
roof
live band
and her
right there
in her pink coffin
on the stand
over the grave
while they
line danced
did the Cotton-Eyed Joe
and swigged
cases
of Pearl
and Lone Star
that she bought before she died
then tossed
their empties
into the hole
before they lowered
her away
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