[stylist] Back to Writing? Obituaries?

Tue Aug 25 16:43:44 UTC 2015

EvaMarie,
I had to laugh with you over your first comment. Weird, yes. My siblings and
my sons all have this kind of weird sense of humor, and it is sometimes
outrageous, to those used to more conventional thought patterns.
Thank you for your comments on the two poems. I felt my mother was the
greatest of poets with her knack for addressing important concepts, feelings
and emotions in totally accessible ways. She studied poetry and art, and
photography her entire life. If she was not in a class to learn, she was
having a class for others.
Anytime one of my poems is compared favorably to one of hers, I feel great
satisfaction. There is only one line of hers that I have ever used, but I am
sure my style of writing has been influenced.

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 

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Jackie, I failed to say that I was commenting on your bizarre obituary for
yourself, not the poems.
I like your mom's poem, it gets the point across nicely. But I really like
your poem. It gives options for everyone.
I see where you get your talent. Mama Donnafred is very proud, I am sure.
Blessed Be.
Eve

 President, National Federation of the Blind Northern Arizona
President, National Federation of the Blind Writers' Division
Member, Slate & Style Editing Team
Editor, Tapestry, a TAWN publication
"You do not need to have vision to see the stars."

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Vejas Vasiliauskas via stylist <
stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I really liked your obituary that you did for yourself.
> Just wondering, where did you get the name Donnafred from? At first I
> wasn't sure of the gender of that name-Fred being a boy-but I guess if
> Winnifred is a girl, Donnafred would be also.
> What a sad name to be branded with.  I like Donna on its own, and I called
> the father in the stories I was writing about earlier Fred, but not
> together.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: EvaMarie Sanchez via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org
> To: "Writers' Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 19:37:20 -0700
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Back to Writing? Obituaries?
>
> Jackie, I say this with the utmost of respect and love...  You are weird.
> hahaha
> I really had no idea where this was going at first.  It is an interesting
> concept and wonder how many will take the challenge.  If not your own
> obituary, perhaps one of your characters'?
> Sounds like some good dank fun.
> Eve
> Oh, and I think you should have called pest control much sooner.  Eu.
>
> President, National Federation of the Blind Northern Arizona
> President, National Federation of the Blind Writers' Division
> Member, Slate & Style Editing Team
> Editor, Tapestry, a TAWN publication
> "You do not need to have vision to see the stars."
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Jackie Williams via stylist <
> stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> All of the last back and forths made me start to write obituaries.  Though
> I
> have four, I am just including a very short poem of my mother's, and
> another
> short one of mine.
> I am also pasting a fictional obituary simply because one of the men in
our
> poetry group and I had an ongoing feud about who could write the most
> ridiculous obituary.
> No winner was ever declared.
> So have some fun, or if you wish to continue the religious aspects, this
is
> a way you can do so and have it critiqued from the professionals we are,
> and
> not for the content which we might not agree with.
>
> Solution
> Just plant me under a tree
> Environmentally.
> You won't need a casket
> a box or a basket
> for biodegradable me.
>               Donnafred
>
> Obituary
>
> When I am settled down up there
> I'll have myself a holy tear,
> or when I'm fired up down there,
> I'll surely make the Devil care.
>
> But if I'm not invited in
> because of godly grace or sin,
> I'll plant myself in earth with men,
> and grow to bud and bloom again.
>               Jacqueline Williams
>
>
> Obituary                           Jacqueline Williams
> On Oct.  22, Pesky Home Pest Control and Conservation visited the Lee home
> in
> response to a frantic call about the sight of several huge sewer size
> cockroaches.  The woman of the house lived alone, and was partially
sighted
> but could see big moving black blobs on the white tile in her bathroom.
> The
> records showed that the entire house was sprayed.  On the morning of Oct.
> 24,
> in answer to a Medic-alert flash, the following scenario was surmised
about
> the death of said woman.  While taking a shower, apparently Miss Lee tried
> to
> bolt from the enclosed space and got tangled in the shower curtain.  Her
> weight apparently broke the curtain loose, and she fell within it on her
> back in an oval shaped empty clothes basket near the shower.  Her arms and
> legs were sticking straight up from the dark curtain lining the basket,
now
> like a shell.  In the shower, and again, next to the basket there were two
> huge cockroaches on their backs with their legs sticking straight up.  The
> family does not know whether it was a broken neck, or from shock that
> caused
> a heart attack, or whether Miss Lee had an allergic reaction to pest
spray.
> It has since been found that the City of Mesa sprayed the sewers in front
> of
> the home area on Oct.  20, causing the cockroaches to make a run for any
> exits, one being the shower of Miss Lee.  The strangest aspect is that a
> recording of a Mexican national dance, named "La Cucaracha" was still
> spinning on a player next to the bath, with a cockroach costume laid out
on
> the bed.  Her sons said it was a favorite dance that she loved to teach
her
> students when they needed shaking up a bit.  Pesky Home Pest Control and
> Conservation offered to provide food after the service, but the family
> declined.  There are no services scheduled as no one could be found to
give
> a
> eulogy.  It is rumored that the contents of the house, containing many art
> objects and paintings of insects, will be auctioned off.  I, as a
> red-blooded
> journalist, have chosen to print this with no byline in spite of a request
> for privacy.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Jackie Lee
>
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz
>
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