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Kindness
~Kindness~
Fred works in the basement of a funeral home.
He puts bodies in boxes,
then slides them into the oven.
When the cremation is finished
Fred opens the oven, allows it to cool,
then pulls the bone fragments into a tray
using a push broom. He tries to get all of it.
Fred uses a magnet to find and remove metal
that might be present, then pours the bones
into the grinder and turns it on.
He has no reason to tell anyone that the ash they scatter
is actually ground bone. Fred is kind, that way.
Wow, is that true? What a
Wow, is that true? What a stirring thing to write. Somehow, you managed to write it in the tone of "Fred", or so I feel. I don't know that I could do that, with such content.