[Sndbox] Born 1903-Died 1942

[Charles]

Born 1903-Died 1942

           Looked up the elevator shaft
           to see if the car was on the way down.
           It was.

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        In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:

             Here lies an Atheist
             All dressed up
             And no place to go.

          
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        In a London, England cemetery:

             Here lies Ann Mann,
             Who lived an old maid
             But died an old Mann.
             Dec. 8, 1767

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        In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:

             Here lies Johnny Yeast.
             Pardon me
             For not rising.

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        In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery:

             Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
             Stepped on the gas
             Instead of the brake.

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        In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery:

             Here lays The Kid.
             We planted him raw.
             He was quick on the trigger
             But slow on the draw.

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        A lawyer's epitaph in England:

             Sir John Strange.
             Here lies an honest lawyer,
             And that is Strange.

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        Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont:

             Here lies the body of our Anna -
             Done to death by a banana.
             It wasn't the fruit that laid her low,
             But the skin of the thing that made her go.


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        On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket,Massachusetts:

            Under the sod and under the trees,
             Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
             He is not here, there's only the pod.
             Pease shelled out and went to God.


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        In a cemetery in England:

             Remember man, as you walk by,
             As you are now, so once was I.
             As I am now, so shall you be.
             Remember this and follow me.

        To which someone replied by writing
        on the tombstone:

             To follow you I'll not consent
             Until I know which way you went.

 

Charles Mims

http://www.the-sandbox.org

 

 

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