"Who could have painted your walls?
Who could have given you words, warmth, light?
Thinly veiled shame. This stripped poem."
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Stripped poem (Gestript gedicht) by Menno Wigman, translated by Inga Buyse (2016 Lonely Funeral Foundation) pshares.org/blog/the-dut...
Any funeral is poignant. But that’s particularly the case for those who die anonymously, unclaimed by friends or family. In the Netherlands, city poets have responded to the tragedy of “lonely funeral...