Miss Emily died, alone and friendless,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
after a life that seemed hollow and endless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now she lays in the cemetery graves,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
with Union and Confederate soldiers from Civil war days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She had been a tradition, a duty, a care, a hereditary obligation,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
before this whole situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
her voice was hard cold and dry, not a bit of sympathy to be traced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is really what happened, there really<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and that’s it for the poem, based on “A Rose for Miss Emily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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