By Saul Seibert.
24 Hours After Someone Dies:
Someone will ask you if you would like paper or plastic and the phone will ring because someone doesn’t know that someone has died or maybe they do and you think you know what they’ll say so you silence the call through your blue jeans and feel for your lighter…..it’s always in the last place you check.
The hymns that were sung moments ago are filled in with made up words that you can’t quite make fit.
One of your relatives says something stupid like, “It’s just a shame.”
I’ve said some dumb things before so I nod my head and look for an easy exit out of the small talk. Continue Reading…