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THE UNDERTAKING
Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
By Thomas Lynch (Funeral Director)

HA!
You laugh!
You cry!
You curse!
You scream and shake your fists at me!
You even fantasize my funeral!

Woe is me...
....but seriously, THIS BOOK IS FUNNY! I picked it up (at Amazon.com) over a year ago (and only started it) but it is really laugh out loud funny! It also was a winner of the American Book Award (what ever in the hell that is...maybe Lynch made it up...). This guy is a real Funeral Director in a small town in Michigan. He is also a poet, and has written quite a few books.

A review of "The Undertaking" from the Detroit Free Press: "Lynch's essays are consistently humane and observant of the tragic, humorous, and occasionally startling vagaries of human life...Highly recommended reading for fans of poetry, Ireland, funeral and cultural customs, or anything else. More than a study of 'the dismal trade,' it is a long view of what it means to be human."

(I'm probably the only person who had to look up this word, but...

Main Entry: va·ga·ry
Pronunciation: 'vA-g&-rE; v&-'ger-E, -'gar-, vA-; also 'va-g&-rE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ries
Etymology: probably from Latin vagari to wander, from vagus wandering
: an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion)

Sunday, April 3rd

Love & cold clammy kisses,
Kelly