Mourners

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“And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes, 12:5.

“And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 12:5.

“A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children and islands
weren’t enough; as if mourners and gossips
and vegetables were never enough.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)