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Three Short Stories

James Petras :: 07.05.14

Meditations: Greece Past and Present :: Reflections on Odessa :: Conversations: Scholars and Farm Workers

I stopped. A funeral was going by. A pauper’s burial. Only a woman and a child followed. I asked an old man looking on who it was.

“A neighbor who sold fruit and vegetables and couldn’t pay the rent”.

He looked up puzzled. “How could they afford a coffin, a burial site and a stone if he couldn’t put food on the table when he was alive?”

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