The Eulogy He Read At His Mother's Funeral

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Listening to Purcell,

she said the worse'll

never come

She was picking flowers

from her nose

While angels danced

on her toes

Miles posted on her thighs

but those eyes:

One wink and the world 

would wonder what happened

Their sparkle

stopped the rain

And their pain 

made my father

beg for mercy

Her poetry

taught her son

the alphabet

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FRANCES STEERLING

For

Francine Bierce Steerling

b. October 21, 1918

d. June 29, 1975

  

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Footnotes

This eulogy was read at Our Lady of Fatima 

in Alberquerque on

July 3, 1975

 Ray Peterssen, to whom this blog is dedicated,

was in attendance at Francine's funeral

The Purcell music referenced

in the first line of the eulogy was

Suite for Abdelezar 

 

The next 

GoFather/Steerling page

is
here 

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