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The Joke
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The body of a weary man is primed like an ambulance Adrenaline charges through his hot blood. I will go mad if we don’t end this now. Bizarre how a man so blind with bits of coal Can strike so…

Contributor:

David Avidan

Places:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Date:

1950

Subjects:

Death, Mourning, Humor, Class

Categories:

Poetry, Literature, Humor & Satire
Why, death, do you tarry so?
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Why, death, do you tarry so? Why does your chariot come so slow? Old age has prepared for me Every illness and complaint. What good are my hundred years?    If such pain I undergo—    Why, death…

Contributor:

Jacob Frances

Places:

Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Aging, Death, Body image, Health, Humor

Categories:

Literature, Popular Poetry, Poetry
Epitaphs
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I have set this stone as a weight, not as a memorial, over my wife’s grave, lest (God forbid!) she rise from the dead and come back home.

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Immanuel Frances

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Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Gravestones, Death, Humor, Women, Body image

Categories:

Literature, Popular Poetry, Poetry