Tag: cemeteries

Headstone Faux Pas

On old cemetery headstone next to a headless statue.
Image: Gary Meulemans

While I was clicking around Unsplash tonight looking for poetic inspiration, I noticed this headstone. This is a peeve of mine. If you’re going to join the ranks of the fanged, at some point go back and put a death date on your headstone so people don’t start asking questions. Sheesh!

And now for today’s candy, Chuckles! I haven’t had them in years, but back when I was commuting to and from Manhattan, I would stop at a newsstand and pick up a pack before I boarded the train home. When I was a kid I favored the red and black ones, but in my 40s, I fell in love with the green ones. Does taste in candy mature?

That’s all for tonight, kids. I’m low on energy and need to get some hemoglobin in me because I’m doing some daywalking tomorrow and need my strength. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge.

Bricked

In Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw last month, one of my friends noticed a mausoleum that had chains on the front gate.

“I wonder what they’re keeping in,” she said.

“Vampires,” said another.

“Oh, it takes more than chains to keep us in,” I said.

Then we rounded a corner and came upon this one, and I had to admit, that might do it.

A black-and-white photo of a bricked up mausoleum in a cemetery.

Side By Side

I took the photo above at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland last month. I was struck by how ivy had blanketed the graves, turning them into earthen beds where two souls lie in eternal slumber. I’m not a romantic by a long shot, but the way the ivy came together in the middle, as though this husband and wife had reached out to one another and joined together even in death, brought a tear to my eye.